Re: X question
I have a Creator 3D card. I'm mentioning this because I spent about 3
days trying to get XF86 working. In frustration, I put the machine a
way for a while and when I plugged it again it worked. Maybe this
will save some a bunch of frustration.
Earl
--- Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:14 -0700, Earl Violet wrote:
> > I have Debian stable installed on a Tatung COMPstationU10. If I
> do a
> > shutdown -r now or shutdown -h now, upon rebooting X won't load.
> > However, if I turn off the master power and turn it on switch X
> will
> > load. This isn't a real problem, just a curiosity.
>
> I recall something similar happening with an Ultra AXi I was
> playing
> with. X in woody worked fine but after upgrading to sarge X only
> worked
> every other time the machine booted (regardless of whether it was
> -r, -h
> or poweroff). When it worked it was fine, when it didn't
> restarting X
> worked and then everything worked as normal. As far as I could
> tell it
> was something to do with initialisation of the graphics card (an
> ATI
> mach based PCI board) but I never got far enough with diagnosing
> the
> problem to submit a full bug report.
>
> HTH
>
> Cheers,
> - Martin
>
>
>
>
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