Re: Lenny Sunblade 150 xserver issue

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 13:32 +0530, निशांत / Nishant wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had successfully upgraded to Debian Lenny from Etch on my
> SunBlade150 15 days back.
> 
> Everything was working fine until today morning when I did aptitude
> safe-upgrade and it upgraded xserver-xorg-core package. After upgrade,
> xserver does not start and I see a black screen with a non-blinking
> "cursor" on the top left corner. Keyboard is alive as I can see
> Num/Caps/Scroll lock keypresses lighting up respective LEDs, but
> pressing "CTRL-ALT-F{1..6}" does not have any effect.
> 
> I had to hard reboot the machine in single user mode and disable GDM
> from starting up.
> 
> Doing
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
> 
> generated a new xorg.conf file but again no luck. Replacing driver
> "ati" with "vesa" is not helping anyhow.
> 
> Any pointers?

See bug#488669.  I asked for testers a few times on this list, but to no
avail...  Can you send your xorg.conf, the X log from the failure, and
the contents of /proc/fb?

Thanks,
Julien