RE: X config on 14 inch 700mhz ibook
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michel Dänzer [mailto:daenzer@debian.org]
>Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:19 PM
>To: Bill Traynor
>Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
>Subject: RE: X config on 14 inch 700mhz ibook
>
>
>On Don, 2002-10-24 at 18:09, Bill Traynor wrote:
>>
>> >From: Michel Dänzer [mailto:daenzer@debian.org]
>> >
>> >On Don, 2002-10-24 at 16:23, Bill Traynor wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I've been trying to configure X on a 14.1" iBook with an ATI
>> >Radeon M6
>> >> LY and I've been unsuccesful. I've installed kernel
>> >2.4.20-pre11-ben0
>> >> and the dri-trunk debs. When I issue:
>> >>
>> >> modprobe agpgart
>> >> insmod /usr/src/modules/drm-trunk/radeon.o
>> >> startx
>> >>
>> >> the screen flickers slightly and then just sits there blank.
>> >>
>> >> After rebooting, my X log only shows 1 error: Cannot read V_BIOS
>> >> (5)
>> >
>> >That's not a problem. A common problem is using a wrong mode,
>> >but we'd have to see the log to be sure.
>>
>> Good point, here's my log and XF86Config-4 as well:
>
>[...]
>
>> Fatal server error:
>> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
>Install xfonts-base or better x-window-system-core. It's
>strange that you didn't get back to console though, maybe
>you'd have had to switch between VTs for radenfb to
>reinitialize the display.
Done.
Now, following startx the machine returns to the console with:
Could not initiate font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
But at least I'm not stuck at a black screen now. Is this a Font Server
problem?
Thanks
Bill
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