[Solved] Odroid C1 - No X (Mali DRM issue)

[Screamy]

I'm not able to start an X session on my Odroid C1. I have the following software installed:

video driver: xf86-video-odroid-c1
X packages: xorg-server xorg-server-util xorg-xinit
Desktop: xfce4

I also have .xinitrc in my /home/screamy, with 'exec startxfce4'.

Non-privileged user 'screamy' is also in the 'video' group.

When I issue a 'startx', it errors out and I see this in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')...
[ 171.240] (**) MALI(0): Don't use umplock across processes
[ 171.312] (EE) MALI(0): [mali_drm_open_master:1326] Error: mali_drm_open_master DRM OPEN (fd: 0xb)

[ 171.313] (EE) MALI(0): [mali_drm_open_master:1337] Error: mali_drm_open_master DRM failed to interface version

[ 171.313] (EE) MALI(0): [MaliPreInit:1453] Error: Failed to be master of DRM!
[ 171.313] (II) UnloadModule: "mali"
[ 171.313] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

...

[Screamy]

Found a solution:

Uninstalled the default xf86-video-odroid-c1 video driver.

Installed the xf86-video-fbturbo-git driver.

X now works, but there are graphical issue in xfce. The background of all dialogs/panels/windows is black and any text is really fuzzy and hard to read. I tried changing themes, etc, but no luck. The same problem occurs with lxde desktop as well.

Guess I'll have to wait on an updated Mali driver...

[dtruesdale]

I think there is a solution for this on the Odroid forums. I will look and see if I can locate it for ya.

[Screamy]

A Ubuntu user over on the Odroid forums had the same 'black background' issue as I did, where it was a driver issue:

http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=7745

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')...
Anyway, as I said, X kind of works, but there are two problems:
* screen background is always black instead of having normal wallpaper (even in apps, like lxterminal)
* screen locks and it doesn't ever accept my password (It seems that I can put in any value and the screen briefly shows the outline of my open windows and then goes back to lock screen)

[Screamy]

Just to go the last mile, I held my nose and loaded the Ubuntu 14.04.1 image from Odroid and it works flawlessly.

I dumped the /etc/X11/xorg.conf config from Ubuntu and compared it to the Arch's /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-Mali conf file and it's identical. So it doesn't appear to be a config issue.

[f4st]

I can confirm this. The odroid-c1 driver just does not work. The fbdev and fbturbo drivers do work, although with black background almost everywhere.

I really don't know what could be causing this.

Edit: Correction. I just installed and enabled lxdm and it seems to have somehow fixed the issue, although it seems like you have to try logging in twice to make it work. Weird.

[kmihelich]

You need to use a DM (lxdm, kdm, etc.) or set up Xwrapper.config and use xinit. This is in the wiki.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo ... 28v1.16.29

[grmume]

I'm experiencing the same error. Did someone manage to get X.org running with the xf86-video-odroid-c1 driver? I'm using lxde with lxdm, so using a DM did not solve that problem.
So far the only thing that helped was installing the xf86-video-fbturbo-git driver. Sadly that resulted in the graphical issues you described. If you switch from 32bits per pixel to 24 bits per pixel everything looks normal but i think you run into problems with transparency (i haven't tested this though).

[pepedog]

It's assumed you are not running X as root
Add this to bottom of ~/.xinitrc
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'exec dbus-launch startlxde')
You could now start lxde logged in as alarm by running startx

[grmume]

Thanks for the replies. I managed to get lxde running now. I did run X as root, i installed lxdm but i did not enable the lxdm service at bootup (me=idiot :/). So if anyone is experiencing the same problems run:
systemctl enable lxdm