NanoPi M1 + Xorg

[bamboo]

Hello,

I am aware that I am totally on the unsupported side and that the device is old, so I kindly ask for help.

I tried to follow this guide [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/User:Lafleur/NanoPi_M1[/url] and I got working Arch instalation ... until I tried to run GUI.

Can somebody point me a direction how to debug Xorg log:

[code]
# startx

(EE)
(EE) Backtrace:
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
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That's not a mistake - the log looks literally like this. No X.conf present. It should use Lima driver (checked lsmod and it is loaded). Well but all I know is that an exception occured. No message, no backtrace. It producers the same log when I try to start LightDM.

[code]
# dmesg | grep lima
[ 5.146836] lima 1c40000.gpu: gp - mali400 version major 1 minor 1
[ 5.157625] lima 1c40000.gpu: pp0 - mali400 version major 1 minor 1
[ 5.186365] lima 1c40000.gpu: pp1 - mali400 version major 1 minor 1
[ 5.192864] lima 1c40000.gpu: l2 cache 64K, 4-way, 64byte cache line, 64bit external bus
[ 5.227879] lima 1c40000.gpu: bus rate = 200000000
[ 5.242829] lima 1c40000.gpu: mod rate = 297000000
[ 5.253061] lima 1c40000.gpu: error -ENODEV: _opp_set_regulators: no regulator (mali) found
[ 5.272350] [drm] Initialized lima 1.1.0 20191231 for 1c40000.gpu on minor 1
[/code]

[robg]

To isolate the driver as the source of your problem, first try launching X without the Mali GPU. That is, uninstall the driver and see if X works with xf86-video-fbdev[1] or KMS[2].

[1]make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/armv7h/xf86-video-fbdev', '', ' class="postlink"')
[2]make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_mode_setting', '', ' class="postlink"')