Re: having problem with X on woody with r128
hah. I thought I had enough skills to do this (and
no, man apt-get, didn't seem to help me either - :) ).
I put Branden's line in my sources.list (deb
http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ sid/i386/) and
did an apt-get update and upgrade, and it all looked
fine and dandy that 8 packages relating to X were
being upgraded. I went through their configuration,
clicking okay that they were experimental packages
etc.... however, it never fully upgraded them...
startx still tries to load X 4.1.....
running apt-get upgrade again, i get...
the following packages have been kept back
libdps1 libxaw7 xbase-clients xlibmesa3 xlibs
xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xutils
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove
and 8 not upgraded.
Did I forget something? How can I fix please?
Thanks,
Brad.
--- Bill Morgan <bilmor@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> This card worked fine for me under X 3.36, but
> failed under
> Woody's X 4.1, which I find a little puzzling.
>
> I wound up using Branden's somewhat experimental
> XFree86 4.2
> located at:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~branden/
>
> There's a list of mirrors at:
>
> http://raw.no/x4.2/
>
> It's working fine for me now, but I still haven't
> worked
> out all of the apt pinning issues to keep it up to
> date.
> That's high on my to-do list, so someday....
>
> HTH and Good Luck,
>
> Bill
>
> (Continuing top-posting because that's the way this
> thread
> is going.)
>
> On 9/25/02 9:34 AM, "b d"
> <bobdole20020924@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Bart et all,
> >
> > Um, I'm sorry, I couldn't find where to disable
> the
> > kernel frame buffer.... I had previously crafted
> my
> > XF86Config file from hand... but I did as you said
> and
> > did a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and didn't
> see
> > any mention of kernel frame buffer.... also
> couldn't
> > find it in the kernel compilation configuration.
> I
> > also did a quick google and couldn't find any
> mention
> > of this problem......
> >
> > I'm not missing anything simple am I?
> >
> > Any further help appreciated! This is driving me
> up
> > the wall!
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > Bart Verweire <bart.verweire@teleatlas.com> wrote
> in
> > message news:<3D917BED.54C37DD0@teleatlas.com>...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've had the same problem, and found the
> following
> > solution somewhere on the net
> >> :
> >> during the X configuration (using
> dpkg-reconfigure
> > xserver ?), debian proposes
> >> to use a 'kernel frame buffer' (don't have my
> debian
> > at hand at this moment, so
> >> I'm not sure about the terminology). The default
> > setting is yes (debian saying
> >> that it is safe to do so). In my case, I had to
> > disable the kernel frame buffer.
> >> And it now works without a problem.
> >>
> >> hope to help.
> >>
> >> Bart
> >>
> >> b wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi folks:
> >>>
> >>> I have a question - I have gotten X working with
> > woody on a fair number of
> >>> machines, but this one confuses me. The video
> > card is a 32 MB ATI Rage 128.
> >>> Since it was a fairly new workstation, I
> installed
> > RedHat 7.3 as well, and X
> >>> worked out of the box - then reinstalled Woody,
> > and compared XF86Config
> >>> files, and found no substantial differences.....
> I
> > upgraded and recompiled a
> >>> 2.4.19 kernel as well with AGP support and DRI
> for
> > the ATI R128 compiled
> >>> right into the kernel.
> >>>
> >>> Someone please help if you have any ideas......
> (I
> > apologize if there is a
> >>> more proper place for this posting...)
> >>>
> >>> The short description: The error is "no screens
> > found"
> >>>
> >>> following is my XF86Config file, and following
> > that (sorry for the length)
> >>> is the log output detailing the errors...
> >>>
>
>
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