Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

[Aurélien Campéas <aurelien.campeas@free.fr>]

Tong Sun a écrit :
> Hi, 
>
> This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having
> upgraded from xsever to xorg. 
>
> Is there any way I can have my X back? 
>
> I saw in thread 
>
> Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed
> gnome
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-09/1631.html
>
> that there is way to restore using xserver instead of
> xorg. I tried to follow it, but wasn't successful. 
>
> I removed all xorg and xserver packages and reinstall
> xserver from scratch, but still I was forced to
> install xorg. 

switch your source list to sarge and apt-get update
then apt-get install xserver-xfree86, configure it

and switch back to sid (and dont forget to reupdate)

it worked very well for me

> I installed the xorg, try its hardware auto-detection,
> again, but still my X won't start. The sypmtom is,
> still, the screen gets into graphic mode, with garbage
> on it, and the whole system just freeze. I tried
> Ctrl-Alt-\, Ctrl-Alt-F?, Ctrl-Alt-Del, nothing worked.
>
> Please help. It's a real emergency, and I'm desperate.
>
> Is there any way, any?
>
> thanks a lot
>
>
>
>
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