RE: About to give up: No X after upgrade from Potato to Woody
Progress! But still not there. I've used the various suggestions from this
list over the last day to see if I could solve my problem. I've been
somewhat confused by suggestions of using both dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-common and X -configure. I'm still not exactly sure of the
difference but by using X -configure and then manually editing its results I
found that my mouse settings should be /dev/psaux and protocol of PS/2. In
my old XF86Config file I used /dev/mouse, pointing to ttysX, and protocol of
Microsoft, at least I think I did. I know I started editing the dev links
early on in my problems. Perhaps my original settings under version 3 were
psaux and I just forgot that and kept trying to get /dev/ttySx work under 4
because I thought that's what they used to be. In any case that seems fixed!
Thanks to everyone for their advice.
One problem remains: when I run startx everything seems to go well in the
sense of no errors in console. But it always ends with "waiting for server
to shut down." So I think server gets started then immediately shuts down. I
seem to recall that this happened when I first got X working under version 3
two years ago but I can't seem to fix it. I suspect it may be in my
/etc/X11/Xsession file but am not sure. I believe all that has in it now is
"windowmaker &".
Any suggestions on this, I hope, last problem?
Thanks very much in advance,
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: gashuffer09@comcast.net [mailto:gashuffer09@comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:04 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: About to give up: No X after upgrade from Potato to Woody
This one time, at band camp, marshal@h9.dion.ne.jp said:
> >>>>> "Ken" == Ken Januski <kenjanuski@mindspring.com> writes:
>
> Ken> The other error I noticed in log was: "failed to load kernel
> Ken> module "r128" but perhaps that's best left for later.
There is a kernel module for r128 and DRI, and agpgart as weel. If you
have an AGP card, and want accelerated graphics, you'll have to compile
the modules, or compile them into the kernel. kpkg does a very nice job
of this if you're running a stock debian kernel, or if you've never done
this sort of thing. Note that these options are only available in 2.4.x
kernels. If you don't want to upgrade your kernel, X should run just
fine without it, but you won't have accelerated graphics.
> Don't worry about that. Unless you want to use the Radeon 128
> acclerated server.
>
> Ken> Again thanks for any advice. I'm not sure by the way why it
> Ken> want /dev/input/mice. Should that replace /dev/mouse?
It's looking for devfs, do you have it installed? If not, change the
netry in XF86Config-4, as explained below.
> Yep, or where ever your mouse device is. You'll have to edit
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and edit this section.
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> change the "Device" line to point to your mouse device. And change
> the "Protoc0l" to whatever is approprate. Try the default first and
> if it doesn't work, take a peak at the follow webpage:
>
> http://www.xfree86.com/current/mouse.html
>
> You may want to take this whole section out of it's current place and
> place it up top, before the debconf controlled section. This should
> keep things from getting rewritten everytime things get upgraded. But
> I could be wrong. Some one want to correct me on this one?
Looks good.
Steve
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