Boot-up freezes when I have a 2 x screen xorg.conf

[mattyhue]

Help me please, while I still have hair left in my head...

Trying to get a single desktop spanning my two LCDs. I had it working on RedHat 9, but still struggling now I've changed to Fedora Core 3. I almost have it, but the system freezes when it gets to the last startup item - 'Starting HAL daemon'.

Graphics card: ATI Radeon 7000/VE 32MB DVI/Analogue

The last tried xorg.conf (notice the Xinerama option and the Load "dri" have been commented out):


Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

# Option "Xinerama" "on"

Option "Clone" "off"

EndSection

Section "Files"

RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"

EndSection

Section "Module"

Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"

# Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Samsung"
ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster 710T"
DisplaySize 340 270
HorizSync 30.0 - 96.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "dpms"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Eizo"
ModelName "L465"
DisplaySize 320 250
HorizSync 25.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 55.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"

EndSection

Section "Device"

Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 7000"
Screen 0
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

EndSection

Section "Device"

Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 7000"
Screen 1
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

EndSection

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"

Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"

EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"

Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"

EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "DRI"

Group 0
Mode 0666

EndSection


I'd really appreciate some input on this one, people.

[Zelos]

I currently have the same problem as well...

The only solution I have is booting up in init3 or in grub booting in single. Then afterwards you can init5 and you should be able to bring up xwindows. I'm not really sure what is causing it, but at least you will be able to boot up with the spanning windows.

[mattyhue]

Hey Zelos, that works!!!! I set my default init to level 3 in /etc/inittab and then use /sbin/telinit 5 command to launch X. Now I just need to work out how to get rid of the flicker on my digital LCD.

Thanks!

[gitcheld]

I had the same lockup problem with an FC3 server today, and found that I was able to get "normal" boot, without a hang, by disabling graphical boot. Change "GRAPHICAL=yes" to "GRAPHICAL=no" in /etc/sysconfig/init to disable graphical boot. This, of course, means that you'll have to log in and execute "startx" to actually get into Xwindows after boot, but that wasn't a problem for my headless, keyboardless, mouseless network storage server on which I was having the problem...

Xwindows works fine without lockup after the boot sequence completes. It appears to be a problem with starting hald with xorg already running.

-- Dave