Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400
On 6 Oct 2003, Jon Haugsand wrote:
>
> 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:
<snip>
>
> Any idea of what goes wrong? Or how to debug my situation?
<snip>
a quick google search found this:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html
although I did not vet it, it seem to mention the i830 issues as well as a
new xf86 help doc.
Cheers!
-Kev
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