Re: Troubles sidegrading
On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 12:43, Scott McMahan wrote:
> I've been running a 2.4.10-pre12 kernel from sources I rsync-ed from
> Monta Vista and had been running XFree86 4.1.0 from sources I downloaded
> from www.xfree86.org on an Imac. I decided it was time to re-enter the
> debian fold, so to speak, and added "woody" to my apt sources list. I
> downloaded the sources for 2.4.10 and compiled/installed following the
> procedure at
> http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/powerpc/ch-post-install.en.html to
> install a custom kernel. To the best of my knowledge, I "make
> menuconfig"-ed it up the same as the 2.4.10-pre12 I had compiled
> earlier, but when I boot with the woody package, the screen blanks after
> sending out some messages, the last being "openpic exit." With the
> working version, I next see the penguin image and the message "Fixup res
> 1 (101) of dev 00:10.0: 400 -> 802400." I can connect via ssh, so it
> just seems to be a problem with the console display, but I just can't
> figure out what. dmesg for either kernel seems to be the same. I can
> only see two differences, the kernels aren't the same size and the ticks
> per jiffy differ by one (249677 - good, 249678 - bad).
Are you building the kernel from Debian kernel source now? You can build
kernel packages off any source tree with kernel-package, so why not keep
using what used to work.
> I'm also having trouble with the XFree86 from debian (with the MV
> kernel). When xdm tries to start, it crashes. According to
> /var/log/xdm.log it could not open the default font 'fixed'. According
> to some earlier posts on this list that means I need a font server.
Actually, you need xfonts-base.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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