Re: squeeze: graphical environment broken

[Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>]

On 24/06/2009, at 1:19 AM, Bob Tracy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:19:26PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
> > BTW, to run
> > the latest Xserver on Alpha one must compile their own 2.6.30  
> > kernel (or
> > patch a 2.6.29 kernel).  The 2.6.30 kernel doesn't seem to have
> > propagated to Alpha on Debian unstable yet.
>
> Is that xserver-xorg >= 7.4?

Yes.  With a very recent X server.  It uses libpciaccess to access pci  
cards.  The 2.6.30 kernel is the first kernel to provide the necessary  
sysfs interface on Alpha.

>  I'm waiting on that one to maybe fix the
> gnome-settings-daemon issue,

If it comes through to Squeeze then try it with caution.  It severely  
crashed my system with corruption of the home partition.

> I've had consistently good luck running kernels built from the stock
> kernel.org source.

Yeah, I usually run a very recent kernel from kernel.org.

I must get around to reporting the kernel oops as you suggest...

Cheers
Michael.