Re: Still having upgrade problems with xserver-svga
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:52:31PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Josef Dalcolmo wrote:
> >
> > dwarf@polaris.net said:
> > > I installed from Potato CDs and then upgraded to Woody over a PPP
> > > connection. Because I knew that there were major changes between
> > > Potato and Woody reguarding XFree86, I put off the configuration of X
> > > until the upgrade.
> >
> >
> > I did the same (on a different machine) - here are my notes:
> >
> > Make sure all packages installed are XFree4 (not XFree3) packages - with
> > dselect.
>
> I'm using apt-get...
>
> >
> > use xserver-XFree (not xserver-svga)
>
> Well, actually it is xserver-xfree86 ;-)
>
> I had to go into dselect to figure this one out...
>
> Seems like this isn't exactly intuitive. Someone with a Potato system will
> just do a dist-upgrade like I did, and get xserver-svga upgraded. I guess
> this should go into the upgrade notes...
>
> Anyway, this seems to fix the debconf problem, but I still don't have a
> working X.
>
> There are several things that bother me about the information in the log.
> I get an error from xf86OpenSerial that says: cannot open device
> /dev/input/mice ..., but I declared /dev/psaux as the mouse device! This
> doesn't seem to stop the install as there is a later message about adding
> extended input device "Configured Mouse", but I'm still not sure why...
I got this after a recent upgrade to an existing woody system, so it
probably is more related to the specific X4 version than the upgrade.
X wouldn't start until I reconfigured it but IIRC, I then had to edit
the "ServerLayout" section of XF86Config-4 to specify the "Configured
Mouse". I seem to recall that the /dev/input stuff was added for USB
mice.
The reconfiguration put back in the default NV driver instead of the
Nvidia driver I had been using, but since I don't notice any
difference, I just left it alone.
>
> What _does_ kill the server is the Fatal server error: could not open
> default font 'fixed'. I remember a posting about this as well, but don't
> remember what the solution was, and can't find those postings...
>
> It seems we still don't have an "Idiot's" installation for X ;-)
>
> >
> > When asked for the type of monitor you get 3 choices, something like
> > simple - medium - detailed
> >
> > I chose medium and exaggerated first on the resolution and repeat rate of my
> > screen, then later I chose the particular resolution and repeat rate I wanted
> > as the default (and only) resolution.
>
> Yes, this is the process using the debconf screens, but what do I tell
> xf86configure when it askes for a monitor type?
>
I don't know about xf86configure, but did 'dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86', chose to use debconf, selected "advanced" for
monitor and the following questions were pretty straightforward. I
expect that if I had chosen "simple", it would have picked fairly
benign defaults.
Bob
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