Other Help Topics :: problem with X using loadlin

On my old laptop when I use DSL from the liveCD the X gui works fine,
but when I use the loadlin method (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install)
X gives only an empty screen with the error:
"XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0""
" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining."

On my other desktop computer Pentium 130 Win95 the loadlin method works fine.

Had somebody got a similar problem?
Any Ideas?
Is there a log file for the default XVesa (like the /var/log/XFree86.0.log for XFree86)
? Where is it?

Thank you for your help.

The laptop is a Compaq Armada 7770DMT Pentium 233 Win98
SPECIFICATIONS:
Pentium/233 MMX, 512Kb of pipeline-burst cache, 32Mb of EDO RAM, 3.2Gb EIDE removable hard disk, Compaq 20-speed CD-ROM drive, 2Mb S3 Aurora 64V+ graphics card, 12.1in SVGA TFT screen, 16-bit ESS 1878 audio, integrated stereo speakers and microphone, internal 33.6K modem,one Type III or two Type II PC Card slots, 4Mbits/sec infrared port, lithium ion battery. Windows 95. Dimensions: 320 x 240 x 58mm (W x D x H). Weight: 3.58kg.

I tried different versions of DSL 4.2.5, 4.4.10
I tried with different boot arguments
I also tried to use XFree86.

when booting from the liveCD the cmdline is:
ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux24

with this option.txt file for loadlin (in config.sys I have : shell=c:\loadlin.exe @c:\options.txt)

linux24
ramdisk_size=100000
init=/etc/init
lang=us
apm=power-off
vga=791
initrd=minirt24.gz
nomce
noapic
nodhcp
quiet
root=/dev/hda1
rw
frugal
BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

it is:
root=/dev/hda1 rw apm=power-off minimal ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us nousb noapic nomce nodhcp quiet frugal BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux24

to put the missing "vga=791" I tried c:\ loadlin @c:\options.txt vga=791
but even with that it does not appear in the cmdline...
with "c:\ loadlin @c:\options.txt vga=791 2" DSL starts in runlevel 2, so it seems to take these arguments after the options.txt file...

.xserverrc is:
exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -2button -mouse /dev/psaux -screen 640x480x4 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null

dmesg gives:

<4>Linux version 2.4.31 (root@box) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #6 SMP Fri Oct 21 15:15:54 EDT 2005
<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000005000000 (usable)
<5>0MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>80MB LOWMEM available.
<4>On node 0 totalpages: 20480
<4>zone(0): 4096 pages.
<4>zone(1): 16384 pages.
<4>zone(2): 0 pages.
<6>DMI not present.
<3>ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
<4>Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce noapic nodhcp quiet root=/dev/hda1 rw frugal BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux24
<4>No local APIC present or hardware disabled
<6>Initializing CPU#0
<4>Detected 233.226 MHz processor.
<4>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
<4>Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS
<6>Memory: 77700k/81920k available (1386k kernel code, 3832k reserved, 567k data, 144k init, 0k highmem)
<6>Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<6>Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
<6>Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
<6>Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
<4>Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<5>Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
<7>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
<7>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
<6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
<6>Checking for popad bug... OK.
<4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
<4>mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
<4>mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
<7>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
<7>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
<4>CPU0: Intel Mobile Pentium MMX stepping 01
<4>per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 159.61 usecs.
<5>SMP motherboard not detected.
<5>Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
<4>Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
<4>All processors have done init_idle
<6>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
<6>ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
<6>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf740d, last bus=0
<6>PCI: Using configuration type 1
<6>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
<4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
<6>PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:0e.1
<6>PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:0f.1
<6>isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
<6>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
<6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
<6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
<4>Initializing RT netlink socket
<4>Starting kswapd
<5>VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
<4>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
<6>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
<4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
<6>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
<6>TRIFLEX: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0e.1
<6>TRIFLEX: chipset revision 3
<6>TRIFLEX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<6> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb140-0xb147, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
<6>TRIFLEX: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.1
<6>TRIFLEX: chipset revision 3
<6>TRIFLEX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:0f.1 to 64
<6> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb158-0xb15f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
<4>hda: IBM-DTCA-23240, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdb: COMPAQ CRD-S311, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>hda: attached ide-disk driver.
<6>hda: 6354432 sectors (3253 MB) w/468KiB Cache, CHS=788/128/63
<6>Partition check:
<6> hda: hda1 hda3
<4>ide: late registration of driver.
<6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
<3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
<3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
<6>Initializing Cryptographic API
<6>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
<6>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
<6>IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
<6>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
<6>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<6>Freeing initrd memory: 292k freed
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<4>hdb: attached ide-scsi driver.
<6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
<4> Vendor: COMPAQ Model: CRD-S311 Rev: 2.18
<4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
<4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/20x xa/form2 tray
<6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
<6>usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
<6>usb.c: registered new driver hub
<6>ehci_hcd 00:08.2: NEC Corporation USB 2.0
<6>ehci_hcd 00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem c5829000
<6>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
<6>ehci_hcd 00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
<6>hub.c: USB hub found
<6>hub.c: 5 ports detected
<6>usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 14:05:13 Aug 18 2005
<6>usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
<6>usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
<6>usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc5831000, IRQ 11
<6>usb-ohci.c: usb-00:08.0, NEC Corporation USB
<6>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
<6>hub.c: USB hub found
<6>hub.c: 3 ports detected
<6>usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc5833000, IRQ 11
<6>usb-ohci.c: usb-00:08.1, NEC Corporation USB (#2)
<6>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
<6>hub.c: USB hub found
<6>hub.c: 2 ports detected
<6>Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
<6>usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
<6>USB Mass Storage support registered.
<6>cdrom: open failed.
<6>cdrom: open failed.
<6>cdrom: open failed.
<4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
<4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,0).
<4>FAT: bogus logical sector size 20487
<4>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:00.
<3>ide-scsi: hdb: unsupported command in request queue (0)
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 64
<4>isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:40, iso_blknum=16, block=32
<3>ide-scsi: hdb: unsupported command in request queue (0)
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2
<4>EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
<3>ide-scsi: hdb: unsupported command in request queue (0)
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
<4>FAT: unable to read boot sector
<4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
<4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1).
<4>cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
<6>cloop: loaded (max 128 devices)
<4>cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 1961 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65552 bytes.
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
<6>Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
<6>apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
<6>Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
<6> options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
<6>Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x0698, PCI irq 11
<6>Socket status: 30000006
<6>Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x0698, PCI irq 11
<6>Socket status: 30000006
<6>Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x0698, PCI irq 11
<6>Socket status: 30000006
<6>Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x0698, PCI irq 11
<6>Socket status: 30000006
<6>cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xc48-0xc4f 0xc68-0xc6f
<6>cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x800-0x83f 0x850-0x87f
<6>cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x250-0x257 0x270-0x277 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x408-0x40f 0x4d0-0x4d7
<6>cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
<6>usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 11:56:04 Aug 29 2005
<6>usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
<6>usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
<4>usbdevfs: remount parameter error
<6>Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
<6>ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
<6>parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
<6>ThunderLAN driver v1.15
<6>TLAN: eth0 irq=11, io=1000, Compaq Integrated NetFlex-3/P, Rev. 16
<6>TLAN: 1 device installed, PCI: 1 EISA: 0
<6>Adding Swap: 59992k swap-space (priority -1)
<4>Registering unionfs 1.0.14
<6>usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
<6>usb.c: registered new driver hid
<6>hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
<6>hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
<6>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

When using XFree86
the error log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log
indicates an error about
libint10.a
and V_BIOS

original here.