On Friday 23 February 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: [and snipped once is enough for most of this] >(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or > directory) It may not have existed when x was started, but it does exist now: Restarting X doesn't change the message though. # ls -la /var/run ... srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Feb 22 22:20 acpid.socket ... >(WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati-agp It is available and loadable, but doesn't link to anything when I do load it. Restarting x with it loaded doesn't effect the error. >From an lsmod: radeon 115744 0 drm 78356 1 radeon nvidia_agp 12060 1 agpgart 34380 2 drm,nvidia_agp This motherboard is an nvidia nforce2 motherboard. >(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) >found The PCI BusID is miss-quoted in the error message, its 2:00.1 in the lspci output: [root@coyote dlds-rpms]# lspci -vv |grep -A9 2:00.1 02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01) Subsystem: VISIONTEK Unknown device 7c12 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128M] Region 1: Memory at e9010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- >(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to open DRM connection >(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is > supported (WW) fglrx(0): > *********************************************** >(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * >(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * >(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * >(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available * >(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* * >(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used >(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used >(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one... > >The question is what kernel module? > >What else would it be helpfull to post in an attempt to troubleshoot > this? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.