Re: Re: IBM T22 S3 Savage Video Sarge to Etch Upgrade

["John T. Lapp" <jtl@johntlapp.com>]

Phil,

Running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"  from the root prompt completes the
configureation and drops me back at the prompt. Rebooting produces the same
result, no GUI :-(


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john" <jtl@johntlapp.com>
To: <jtl@johntlapp.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: Fw: Re: IBM T22 S3 Savage Video Sarge to Etch Upgrade


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> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:00:50 -0400
> From: Phil CB <cbphil@gmail.com>
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: IBM T22 S3 Savage Video Sarge to Etch Upgrade
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> Hi!  Since you've upgraded from xfree86 to xorg, you should probably run 
> "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg".  I think it should resolve your problem.
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:36:24 -0400
> john <jtl@johntlapp.com> wrote:
>
> > I ran Synaptic upgrade from Sarge to Etch without bothering to read the 
> > upgrade
> > docs first:-(
> > Synaptic completed ok, just the usual questions about
> > what to keep and what to replace. Noted that menu fonts in firefox were 
> > changed.
> > I rebooted and now have just a command line. GUI tries to start, but 
> > fails.
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
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