No devices detected when running startx

[Bob Willcox]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 03:04:52PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/14/2018 14:59, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > Hmm, I did notice this in my Xorg.0.log:
> >
> >   (EE) intel(0): Failed to submit rendering commands (Bad address), disabling acceleration.
> >
> > Should I be worried? Looks like I may not be running with GPU acceleration enabled.
> 
> I think i remember you mentioning you had a custom Xorg config earlier 
> in this thread.  If you do have you tested moving that out of the way 
> and starting Xorg so that it can autodetect devices and drivers?  In my 
> experience this actually works pretty great and will load the 
> "modesetting" graphics driver which works well with the i915kms driver.
> 
> you should also ensure your user is in the "video" group - although from 
> this error it looks like that is not the issue.

I haven't tried moving my xorg.conf out of the way for this problem as I just
noticed it. However, earlier when I was working on the no devices issue I did
and all I wound up with was something about not being able to run scfb.

Yes, I am in the video group.

Bob

> 
> cheers,
> -pete
> 
> -- 
> Pete Wright
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