Re: xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7) freezing during install (SOLVED)
Not sure why, but got the bright idea to kill gpm and try again. Ta-da!
Apparently gpm conflicts with mdetect.
I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and like Jimmy was puzzled that
XF86Config-4 was not generated. Out of whim (because I tried it a few months
ago and it worked) I ran dexconf (another ta-da) and it generated an
XF86Config-4 with all the settings that I had specified when I ran
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86.
Ahhh...the pleasures of the constantly moving landscape of Linux. :)
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Charles Lewis
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> From: Charles Lewis <lewisc@delta.swau.edu>
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:14:05 -0800
> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7) freezing during install
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:21:46 -0600
>
> OK, purged all traces of X and tried again (by select
> task-x-window-system-core)...
>
> This time I discovered that the install seems to be hanging on mdetect -x.
> It apparently is in a loop that keeps resubmitting the process.
>
> I looked at xserver-xfree86.config and found where it was calling mdetect
> with MDETECT_OUTPUT=$(mdetect -x). Of course I'm a novice, but I tried doing
> the same thing manually and then echo $MDETECT_OUTPUT. It displayed a blank
> line and a man mdetect revealed that a successful detection should have
> returned a 0.
>
> I've pretty much exhausted my newbie capabilities and gpm is working fine,
> so I'm not sure where to go next.
>
> --
> Charles Lewis
> lewisc@delta.swau.edu
> 817-556-4720
>
>
>> From: Jimmy Richards <linuxrh@home.com>
>> Date: 16 Mar 2001 14:02:55 -0700
>> To: Charles Lewis <lewisc@delta.swau.edu>
>> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7) freezing during install
>>
>> Hello Charles,
>>
>> You can do the command 'XFree86 --config' to get it to probe hardware
>> and create a generic XF86Config-4 file.
>> I do not know why the command 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' does
>> not seem to be creating an XF86Config-4
>> file. I think that command should normally be the way to create your X
>> files for debian, but it seems to be broken, at least for me.
>> I looked on the http://bugs.debian.org/ and could not tell from the
>> descriptions if someone had entered a bug report on
>> that specific problem or not, so I may look them over again and perhaps
>> submit a bug on it. I even created an /etc/X11/X file
>> and and XF86Config-4 file in there. When I ran that command it asked me
>> if I wanted them to be overwritten. I said yes. It did
>> not make/overwrite the X and XF86Config files. I think it is definitely
>> a bug. I had to do the XFree86 --config and manually
>> edit it the XF86Config-4 file it made to make it that worked for my
>> Voodoo3 2000.
>>
>> Anyone else having this problem? Just curious....
>>
>>
>> Jimmy Richards
>>
>>
>>
>> On 16 Mar 2001 12:41:41 -0800, Charles Lewis wrote:
>>> Trying to install X on a brand new sid box. Selected
>>> task-x-window-system-core (and all its dependencies
>>> and it freezes at:
>>>
>>> Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.27)...
>>>
>>> I have a Rage 128 card...the non-free xserver-rage128 installs successfully,
>>> except that I can't figure out how to generate XF86Config-4 since none of
>>> the usual utilities seem to be present or have dependencies on
>>> xserver-xfree86.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Charles Lewis
>>> lewisc@delta.swau.edu
>>> 817-556-4720
>>>
>>>
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