Re: X11 stopped working on my machine

[Jeld The Dark Elf <jeld@mindless.com>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:17:41PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> Some time after apt-get dist-upgrading my sid machine 
> yesterday, suddenly X11 stopped working, right in the middle of some
> work.  I haven't been able to get X11 since.  
> 
> The machine has a Matrox G450, single head.  This problem exists with
> or without matrox's own drivers.  I have reinstalled, purged,
> xserver-xfree86 and a couple of other core files, with no effect.  One
> or two times, after running xf86cfg, running "XFree86 -xf86config
> /root/XF86Config-4.new" as instructed, the server loaded in low res
> mode.  I rebuilt XF86Config-4 several times, with no good effect. 
> 
> Attached below are the logfile and XF86Config-4 that recently was
> "re-" generated.
> 
> 

Have you upgraded/recompiled your kernel prior to that? May be you played with those frame buffer modules?

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