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Re: upgrading Debian-GNU-Hurd



On Thursday 24 June 2004 19:00, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:42:07PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> > Thierry LACOSTE wrote:
> > >When I run startx the screen turns black for one or two minutes
> > >and then the computer reboots.
>
> I think this is normal right now if a fatal problem (like when your
> graphics card is not supported) occurs. Check
> /var/log/XFree86.log.0 (or similar) and see the console output.
>
I checked /var/log/XFree86.0.log which ends with

Fatal server error:
Cannot set event mode on keyboard (Inappropriate ioctl for device)

> You need to append --repeat=/dev/kbd or something to the console command
> in order to make X run successfully.
>
When I run starx --repeat=/dev/kbd I have the same problem.

Regards,
Thierry.




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