Troubleshooting X
I just blew away my box and re-installed. All went rather well, but when
I try to start X, I get this:
...
<All the normal mode line stuffs>
...
(--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted.
(**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1"
(--) SVGA: PCI: ATI Rage128 RF rev 0, Memory @ 0xe0000000, 0xde800000, I/O @ 0xd800
Using XFree86 ATI driver version 4.5.
Unknown graphics controller detected.
Unknown chip descriptor in BIOS: 0x3F3F0000.
Unknown video adapter detected.
Brooktree 476 or similar RAMDAC detected.
Support for this video adapter is highly experimental!
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
{0}:iggy:/home/nomad>dpkg --list | grep xserver
ii xserver-common 3.3.5-1.99.sli files and utilities common to all X servers
ii xserver-mach64 3.3.5-1.99.sli X server for ATI Mach64-based graphics cards
ii xserver-s3 3.3.5-1.99.sli X server for S3 chipset-based graphics cards
ii xserver-svga 3.3.5-1.99.sli X server for SVGA graphics cards
ii xserver-vga16 3.3.5-1.99.sli X server for VGA graphics cards
I'm using the XF86Config file I used under Redhat on this same system.
No I don't know what version of XF86 I was running with that, but it
was whatever was the most current.
Am I running the most current stable version? If now, how do I upgrade?
apt-get upgrade says there's nothing to upgrade.
Robert
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