Re: X on latest potato?
Interesting. I'm not using xdm here but tried the "-dev /dev/fb0"
in .xserverrc and also tried "startx -- -dev /dev/fb0". Neither
seems to make any difference. I'll keep trying things...
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Rich Sahlender wrote:
> > Just did an "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade" on an Ultra1 from frozen.
> > Havn't done one in about two weeks and some thirty packages were updated.
> > Among the updates was xserver-xsun/xserver-xsun24 which no longer seem
> > to work.
> >
> > $ startx
> >
> > (using VT number 7)
> >
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > no screens found
> > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> I had the same problem this morning. I fixed it by changing the last line of
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers from:
> :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -deferglyphs 16
> to
> :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -deferglyphs 16 -dev /dev/fb0
>
> I thought that was odd at the time, since Xsun's manual claims it will try
> /dev/fb0, but this did the trick.
>
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