Re: problems w/ X

[Bob Lindell <lindell@aero.org>]

I have an LX164 running Woody and KDE 3.2.2 from testing and unstable.  
I had trouble with the Xserver from testing, so I downgraded just the 
server back to woody.

xserver-xfree86/stable uptodate 4.1.0-16woody3
xfree86-common/testing uptodate 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1
xlibmesa-gl/testing uptodate 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1
xlibs/testing uptodate 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1
xlibs-data/testing uptodate 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1

Bob

On May 21, 2004, at 11:30 AM, Rob Dupcak wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A short history of my problem...
>
> LX164 machine was running X just fine.  I updated some package (from 
> "testing") and X stopped working.  In hindsight all I needed to do was 
> add the bus identifier for my card to XF86Config-4, but I didn't 
> figure that out until I had really caused harm to the system :-)
>
> Instead, what I did was "apt-cache search" for all installed packages 
> that might have anything to do with X, and then "apt-get remove'd" 
> them.  I figured I'd remove everything and then reinstall them and 
> everything should be back to normal.
>
> Certainly a heavy-handed approach, but I thought it would work.
>
> Well it didn't.
>
> If I try to do "startx" from a prompt, it starts flickering the screen 
> and then it just displays a black screen and locks the system down 
> completely.  Keyboard is completely ignored and the system is not 
> accessible via the network.  Power/reset buttons are the only 
> responsive inputs.
>
> The XFree86 log looks like things are going reasonably well - a few 
> modules are not found - but I assume that this is because I specified 
> too many when xserver-xfree86 was configured and this should not be 
> causing a problem (correct me if I'm wrong).  The kernel log does show 
> XFree86 causing 4 unaligned traps and that is the end of the log 
> (before the next boot sequence).  So maybe these traps are causing 
> problems?
>
> This is for both a 2.4 kernel and a 2.6.5 kernel.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
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