| tsal72  
 
 
 
 
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|  | Posted: Jan. 31 2009,09:42 |  |  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
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