Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400
What graphics card are you using? Nvidia or ATI? Did you install the
appropriate drivers? Did you change the driver setting in your
XF86Config ? There's a dell laptop users mailing list on yahoo groups
which is where I figured out how to get my inspiron to work. Go through
their archives and files section, its useful stuff.
Naitik.
On 07 Oct 2003 00:50:34 +0200
Matthias Hentges <eebe@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am Mon, 2003-10-06 um 16.37 schrieb Jon Haugsand:
> > The Dell C400 is troublesome, in particular with Debian since its
> > policy of conservative upgrades. Anyway, I have downloaded the
> > following packages:
> >
> > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody1 20030307145421
> > marcelo@) kernel-source-2.4.22
> >
> > The kernel recompiled with settings as recommended. However, when
> > issuing startx, the screens goes black, 30-60 seconds goes by,
> > suddenly the screen looks X like with the X mouse pointer, but then
> > I am back to console mode again. Looking into the
> > /var/log/XFree86.0.log and grepping out (WW), (EE) and Warning, I
> > get this:
>
> [...]
>
> > Any idea of what goes wrong? Or how to debug my situation?
>
> There is nothing wrong to see here. Please post the complete log.
> Or try starting X manually:
>
> $ X
> $ export DISPLAY=:0
> $ xterm
>
> If you have a working X with a xterm running now, there is probably a
> problem with your windowmanager (KDE, Gnome?) or Displaymanager (GDM,
> XDM, KDM etc.)
>
> HTH
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>
> Matthias Hentges
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