Re: Troubleshooting X server
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 20:32, Michael Hackett wrote:
> On 28 Jul 2002 14:26:01 +0200
> Michel D <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > If Option "NoAccel"
> > helps, you can play with the "XaaNo..." options to isolate the
> > offending acceleration function; the server lists the functions it
> > uses in the log. 4.2.0 might also be worthwhile to try, and the last
> > resort would be the fbdev driver.
>
> No difference with 4.2.0. (Now how do I get back to 4.1? Do I have to
> downgrade all the packages manually?)
You can use a frontend like aptitude.
> I briefly tried the "NoAccel" option with 4.1 before upgrading and it
> didn't crash, although that may have been a fluke. But it's my best
> result yet, so I'll try it again for a while. I would just stay with
> 4.2/NoAccel, but it seems to be significantly slower than even
> 4.1/NoAccel was.
Strange, anyway you could try Option "ShadowFB" instead.
> But if I can be of help in debugging the new release,
> I'm willing to stick with 4.2.
As I said, the next step would be to isolate the acceleration function
which crashes, man XF86Config-4.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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