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Re: ibook 900 startx failure



On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:03 +0100, Adrian Lester wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:25:29 +0200
> Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On some iBooks, the DRI only works with AGP 4x for some reason. Try
> > disabling it by not loading the "dri" X server; if that helps, you'll
> > have to fix your AGP setup if you want it.
> 
> Sorry to be ignorant but what exactly do I have to change in order not 
> to load "dri". There are various options in XF86Config-4 referring to 
> DRI. I have tried commenting out the line:
> 	Load "dri"
> and that did not seem to help.

That's it (I meant to say 'the "dri" X server module'...), bummer.

> BTW I remember now that I am using the main debian XFree86 packages not 
> those from http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ because when I 
> attempted to install the latter I got into a tangle with versions of 
> module bitmap. 

Probably you hardcoded the ModulePath to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" in
XF86Config-4? See /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk/README.
Debian.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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