dist-upgrade killed X and pcmcia-cs
Hi all,
Running potato with kernel 2.2.12 on a NEC Versa note with neomagic video card.
After moving from slink to potato about 6 months ago, I installed the new kernel
and pcmcia-cs from source rather than dpkg. Since then I haven't upgraded anything
(finishing Ph.D.). The other day I decided to do a dist-upgrade, a few glitches
but on the whole apparently successful. However, when booting the next day rather
than getting the usual XDM login screen with my hostname at the top it says "X
Windows". Undaunted I logged in, got a momentary hang, like what you get when you
exit out your window manager and before it returns to the login screen, and then
returned to the login screen. I can only get X working by killing it and then
"startx" manually. I remember some discussion about this a while ago, ie. using X
with xdm or startx, but don't know if this is the same thing.
Second, during startup I now find that whole lot of pcmcia-cs modules are
unresolved symbols and no beeps to tell me my modem has been initialised, and no
modem period.
I have not be playing with linux while finishing my studies so am a bit out of
it. Could anybody tell me what has gone wrong. I'd just like to reinstall but that
would be cheating, hey?
Jord
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Jordan Howarth mailto:jordan.howarth@cmis.csiro.au
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