Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure
X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x. Well it's not
directly the kernels fault, it is the new devfs and/or the new input layer that
causes the problem. Actaully I couldn't get my machine to boot because of
devfs. You need to install devfsd to around the booting problem (if you have
it) or you can pass the parameter devfs=nomount to the kernel via lilo.
To get X to work, you need to change your XF86Config file (or XF86Config-4 for X
4.0.x) so that the mouse device is something like /dev/inputs/mouse0 or
/dev/inputs/mouse1.
Change /etc/inittab to a runlevel where X does not try to fire up
automatically. Then use startx to manually invoke X and see what the error
messages are. They should also be logged to /var/log/XFree86.0.log
Brendan Simon.
tom wrote:
> tom wrote:
> >
> > Well, I upgraded from stable to testing.
> >
> > Now X is dead.
> >
> > I run 'XFree86 -configure' and it locks up like a Windows Box
> > would. I have to power down to get it to let go.
> > I run 'X -configuer' and I get the same thing..
> >
> > I've attached a 'tail' of my XFree86.log file.
> >
> > >From a guess, it is missing the pci device 01:00.0
> > from 'lspci'
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatable controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage
> > P/M Mobility AGP 2x (rev 64)
> >
> > Now What?
> >
> > --
> > 8:33am up 25 days, 14:44, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00,
> > 0.00
> >
>
> It seems that the text based configuration tool works OK.
> The default video of 'apm' that was used was locking up the
> notebook.
> I don't know why it picked apm, but that's what it did.
>
> --
> 9:14am up 25 days, 15:25, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00,
> 0.00
>
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