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gypaetus

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Registered: 2025-07-09

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virtual console does not appear after transition to Archlinux32

I have transitioned an old pentium4 machine running Archlinux to Archlinux32
using an intermediate step with a archive snapshot as described
in the instructions. Everything seemed to work fine but after the
final upgrade the screen goes blank during the booting process
just when the virtual console should make its appearance.
Actually I can log on to the machine using ssh and look at the
logs but I can not figure out what is the problem.

$ sudo lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV200/M7 [Mobility Radeon 7500]

The systemd log of the boot process is available here:
http://0x0.st/8G7b.txt

And this is approximately the bit where the screen goes blank:

Jul 09 16:29:49 abulafia kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer
Jul 09 16:29:49 abulafia kernel: radeonfb (0000:01:00.0): ATI Radeon 4c57 "
Jul 09 16:29:49 abulafia systemd-fsck[329]: /dev/sda1: clean, 80/51200 file
Jul 09 16:29:48 abulafia systemd[1]: Starting Virtual Console Setup...
Jul 09 16:29:48 abulafia systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Deacti
Jul 09 16:29:48 abulafia systemd[1]: Stopped Virtual Console Setup.
Jul 09 16:29:48 abulafia systemd[1]: Starting Virtual Console Setup...
Jul 09 16:29:48 abulafia systemd[1]: Activated swap /dev/disk/by-uuid/1dcc2
Jul 09 16:29:48 abulafia systemd[1]: Reached target Swaps.
Jul 09 16:29:48 abulafia systemd[1]: Mounting Temporary Directory /tmp...
Jul 09 16:29:48 abulafia systemd[1]: Mounted Temporary Directory /tmp.
Jul 09 16:29:48 abulafia systemd[1]: Listening on Load/Save RF Kill Switch
Jul 09 16:29:49 abulafia systemd[1]: Finished File System Check on /dev/dis
Jul 09 16:29:49 abulafia systemd[1]: Mounting /boot...
Jul 09 16:29:49 abulafia systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/systemd-ba
Jul 09 16:29:49 abulafia systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save Screen Backlight Br
Jul 09 16:29:50 abulafia systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Deacti
Jul 09 16:29:50 abulafia systemd[1]: Stopped Virtual Console Setup.
Jul 09 16:29:50 abulafia systemd[1]: Starting Virtual Console Setup...
Jul 09 16:29:50 abulafia systemd[1]: Finished Load/Save Screen Backlight Br

Last edited by gypaetus (2025-07-09 16:54:17)

gypaetus

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Registered: 2025-07-09

Posts: 2

Re: virtual console does not appear after transition to Archlinux32

Blacklisting radeonfb shows a console. I will try to start a wayland compositor now.

$ sway
libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)

00:00:00.031 [ERROR] [wlr] [EGL] command: eglInitialize, error: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED (0x3001), message: "DRI2: failed to load driver"
libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)

00:00:00.037 [ERROR] [wlr] [EGL] command: eglInitialize, error: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED (0x3001), message: "DRI2: failed to load driver"
libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)

00:00:00.042 [ERROR] [wlr] [EGL] command: eglInitialize, error: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED (0x3001), message: "DRI2: failed to load driver"
00:00:00.042 [ERROR] [wlr] [EGL] command: eglInitialize, error: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED (0x3001), message: "eglInitialize"
00:00:00.042 [ERROR] [wlr] [render/egl.c:264] Failed to initialize EGL
00:00:00.042 [ERROR] [wlr] [render/egl.c:554] Failed to initialize EGL context
00:00:00.042 [ERROR] [wlr] [render/gles2/renderer.c:679] Could not initialize EGL
00:00:00.042 [ERROR] [wlr] [render/wlr_renderer.c:333] Could not initialize renderer
00:00:00.042 [ERROR] [sway/server.c:79] Failed to create renderer

Last edited by gypaetus (2025-07-09 17:11:15)