On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:37:41 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Bibek Paudel wrote:
I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple
of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the
proper drivers are installed. i found that the xserver-xorg-video-*
packages are generally missing after the upgrade. please try
installing them, esp the ones for your graphics/video card.
xserver-xorg-video-all should do for most cases.
hope that helps,
bibek
I have checked, and most of the xserver-xorg-video-* files are
installed. Specifically, xserver-xorg-video-all,
xserver-xorg-video-sis, and xserver-xorg-video-vesa are all installed.
How do I instruct xorg to use a specific driver. The current xorg.conf
file makes no mention of the driver to use. I tried adding the line
from my old xorg.conf file, to use the vesa driver, but then I am back
to X simply not loading. Is this information kept in a different
location now? It may well be that if I can get X to use the vesa
driver, as it did before, that these problems, at least, will go away.
Then I can concentrate on others, like my digital camera.
AFAIK, it should still work to put
Driver "vesa"
into the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf; maybe the newer vesa
driver has a problem with your chipset. It might help to look at the
output of
grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)|drivers' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
after starting X in the two different configurations (with and without
trying to enforce using the vesa driver). This should at least give us a
better idea about the reason of the crashes with vesa and which problems
the sis module might have.