Re: V3 Amiga install problem
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:58:40PM +0100, Steve Hargreaves wrote:
> Hi there, Christian
>
> OK - I need help again (the joys of being a novice :o/)
Time to change that, you are not really a novice anymore. First thing, teach
your mailclient to observe:
X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; please do not CC me on replies.
Second, I do not do personal user support, this list is doing that. If you
wanted personal support (thankfully you Cced the list...), I'd have to charge
for that.
Third, generic debian questions belong to debian-user (no judgement if
these are generic questions or not, but in the future you will ask questions
which are not restricted to m68k).
Ok, now to the (free ;-) answers.
> I got debian 3 installed OK, but I've hit some problems since:-
>
> 1. When linux has booted, as soon as I login with login name/password, the
> screen goes black, and hangs. This is a sporadic problem. I can login
> successfully perhaps 1 out of 4 attempts - and I've no idea why. I can get
> debug output for you if it would help, but I can't see any clues in it myself.
wrong password? login how, on the console, gdm, xdm, whateverdm? I do not
understand what you are doing from your description, but maybe somebody else
does.
> 2. I can't get xfree to start. At first it complained about not "No screens
> found", and after searching around the web, I used dpkg -reconfigure to set up
> xfree using the virgeS3 driver - now it just quits without a specific error
> (Caught error 11 or something like that). The XFree log doesn't show anything.
As Branden always says, show us the full log, if it doesn't tell you
anything it does not mean it doesn't tell us anything.
There is no virgeS3 driver for m68k, we use fbdev only. When you installed
XFree86, that should have been the driver in your config. There are some
docs on the CD, in the install files and my webpage about the different
(kernel) drivers, ie there is a virgefb driver, but to XFree86 its just
another fbdev.
No screens found means no screen found... if you are trying X 4.0.x, it
might not work yet. I never got it working, and since I finally got it to
compiled, I could not try it anymore, my CV3D died recently and I am not
planning to buy a new one (any spare cards lying around?). I do not use X
anymore but people told me it works. There was a config file on the list
recently (or somebody sent it in PM?), I did not get it to work with that
with the amifb (native) driver. No time to play with that right now.
You could always use xfree from potato, that one is known to work (3.3.6).
> Unfortunately, I can't get the log from that too you since I can't write it to
> any of my AmigaDOS volumes (SFS on all non linux partitions).
You have a swap partition? Reformat it as affs. You need an affs partition
anyhow for installing new kernels. Or burn a CD, copy it over the network,
send yourself an email, the possibilities are limitless.
> If you really need it, tell me how to print it from the console and I'll type it
> in line by line :o/
>
> This is driving me nuts. When I did a test install of 2.2 it worked, so it's
> something in the Woody that's doing this (both problems).
>
> I don't want to start again. Haing downloaded 103 Meg of archives over 3 days,
> I'd hate to lose them.
The files are in /var/cache/apt/archives. Copy them so a safe location, burn
a CD with them, store them somewhere, then you can always reinstall them.
Manually if you have to, or cheat by copying them back to
/var/cache/apt/archives in case it gets deleted. Or start building your own
partial mirror with that.
BTW did I already tell you that I think it would be a good idea if you
bought a CD? There might be a local linux group where could get one pretty
cheap. If you were in the US I might even send you one.
Christian
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