[Trac #1232] X fails to start

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#1232: X fails to start
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 Reporter:  juliano          |        Owner:  JordanCrouse
     Type:  defect           |       Status:  new         
 Priority:  high             |    Milestone:  BTest-3     
Component:  x window system  |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:                   |  
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Comment (by warp):

 Actually, this isn't an X problem.

 His xorg.conf is the /etc/X11/geode-xorg.conf, this appears to be the
 atest X config.

 /etc/init.d/olpc-configure gets run on first boot, and one of the things
 it does is try to figure out what X config we should be using, including
 things like keymaps.

 First it checks /proc/cpuid to see if we're running on a geode.

 If it's not, then it copies over qemu-xorg.conf, otherwise to does the
 following little dance.

 It copies geode-xorg.conf over xorg.conf.

 It tries to run olpc-bios-sig, if this exits successfully then it reads
 from /dev/nvram a few times to get the language, and then finally reads
 from /dev/nvram to see if the dcon present byte is 01, if it is then it
 applies the language settings to dcon-xorg.conf and copies the result onto
 xorg.conf.

 So, either olpc-bios-sig is returning failure, or that byte in nvram isn't
 01, in either case this is a firmware problem, and as wmb mentioned above
 we need to know what's actually there to know what went wrong.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1232#comment:7>
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