Failed to start X Server

[shamokgit]

Hi,

I just download your min.iso from you googledrive.
The one just linked at the bottom of your github page.
only compatibility mode launch for me but i have to remove "nosplah" from grub command line
When I boot on it , I manage to have mint promp
and a message : Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly...
Using config file : /etc/x11/xorg.conf
system config : /usr/share/x11/xorg.conf.d

did you have the same problem ?
how did you configure X11 ?

[tiggerite]

Hey, I have to be honest, my github page is well out of date now. You
probably want to try the ISO that's at
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0E-zt0RT0Y_OFltXzJSYTBtU1k - it was the
"Alpha" but I've now removed that along with the "Beta" because this
version is much more stable and up-to-date anyway, so it doesn't really
deserve being labelled an "Alpha" or "Beta" any more.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:48 AM, shamokgit [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

I just download your min.iso from you googledrive.
The one just linked at the bottom of your github page.
only compatibility mode launch for me but i have to remove "nosplah" from
grub command line
When I boot on it , I manage to have mint promp
and a message : Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface).
It is likely that it is not set up correctly...
Using config file : /etc/x11/xorg.conf
system config : /usr/share/x11/xorg.conf.d

did you have the same problem ?
how did you configure X11 ?

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[shamokgit]

thanks .. it works better with this image :)
I installed mint but at the end it couldn't install "efi something.deb" so my system is install
but i can't boot on it.
any solution about that ?

[tiggerite]

It was
probably grub-efi-amd64-signed_1.34.9+2.02beta2-9ubuntu1.8_amd64.deb that
it couldn't find? Could you check your ISO/USB image in the
pool/main/g/grub2 and pool/main/g/grub2-signed folders, just to ensure the
packages haven't been chopped by whichever utility you used to create them?
(The grub2 folder should have
three: grub-efi_2.02beta2-9ubuntu1.8_amd64.deb,
grub-efi-amd64_2.02beta2-9ubuntu1.8_amd64.deb and
grub-efi-amd64-bin_2.02beta2-9ubuntu1.8_amd64.deb).

Otherwise, it should pick them up automatically during the install anyway,
as long as you have internet connection at the time.. (they're from
trusty-proposed which is included in the
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-packages-repositories.list)

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:53 PM, shamokgit [email protected] wrote:

thanks .. it works better with this image :)
I installed mint but at the end it couldn't install "efi something.deb" so
my system is install
but i can't boot on it.
any solution about that ?

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[shamokgit]

I have thoses 3 files in /pool/main/g/grub2 and i have 1 file in grub2-signed.
I don't remember if it was that it can't install or it can't find the package.
I can't use internet right now on the surface because of proxy configuration ...
I will try a new install tonight at home with internet and check this.

[tiggerite]

Ok, please let me know how you get on. The three files and one file are
correct, but some utilities chop the filenames during ISO creation and then
the installer can't find them. I was wondering if that had happened to you?

On Friday, 1 April 2016, shamokgit [email protected] wrote:

I have 3 files in /pool/main/g/grub2 and 1 file in grub2-signed.
I don't remember if it was I can't install or I can find the package.
I can't use internet right now on the surface because of proxy
configuration ...
I will try a new install tonight at home with internet and check this.

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[shamokgit]

ok ... I remade the full install with your .iso AND with a connection to the internet and the install went just fine :)
indeed, I checked the logs during install and the system re-download those files at grub2 installation.

I still have one problem ... the touch screen doesn't seems to work :/
did you patch the kernel for it ?

thx

[tiggerite]

Which Surface model do you have? There's still no touchscreen driver for
the SP4, SB or Surface 3 I'm afraid.. the latter is at least recognised by
the system, but that's as far as it goes..

Glad the install worked though :)

On Friday, 1 April 2016, shamokgit [email protected] wrote:

ok ... I remade the full install with your .iso AND with a connection to
the internet and the install went just fine :)
indeed, I checked the logs during install and the system re-download those
files at grub2 installation.

I still have one problem ... the touch screen doesn't seems to work :/
did you patch the kernel for it ?

thx

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[shamokgit]

i'm on Surface 3
do you know if the touch screen use HID-multitouch protocol ?
if so, i may analysed it to make it working .. if i have a bit of time .. :/

[shamokgit]

indeed I just checkout it is a SPI touchscreen
I don't know how to operate on this... but I know someone who knows
I'll let you know

[tiggerite]

I published a new kernel yesterday to my PPA, at
https://launchpad.net/~tigerite/+archive/ubuntu/kernel which has the HID
code updated to the latest in 4.6-rc. You may want to try that instead, at
the least it has some I2C to HID functionality.

On Wednesday, 6 April 2016, shamokgit [email protected] wrote:

indeed I just checkout it is a SPI touchscreen
I don't know how to operate on this... but I know someone who knows
I'll let you know

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[shamokgit]

Hello again,
my friends made the patch on linux kernel for surface3_spi multitouch:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg44681.html

is it possible for you to release a new version of mint17 with this kernel patch ?
thanks anyway.

[tiggerite]

Thanks for pointing me to this, I can't patch the kernel right now as my
Surface at home isn't switched on, but will look into adding this over the
next day or two :)

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 12:42 PM, shamokgit [email protected]
wrote:

Hello again,
my friends made the patch on linux kernel for surface3_spi multitouch:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg44681.html

is it possible for you to release a new version of mint17 with this kernel
patch ?
thanks anyway.

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[shamokgit]

let me know
thanks

[tiggerite]

Hey, just to keep you updated, I'm currently compiling the kernel now on
Launchpad. It seems to have worked fine, no errors, so that is promising!

CC [M] drivers/input/touchscreen/surface3_spi.o

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:16 PM, shamokgit [email protected] wrote:

let me know
thanks

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[shamokgit]

hello
my friend made other improuvment on the driver such as pen recognition
he should give me the patch for 4.6
for now it's on fedora :
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=14288565

• driver for batterie (not working to 100%).
• touchscreen + pen working
• lid cover initial state OK
• sensors speakingHID (
• type cover full multitouch
• HW boutons (problem power button not working).