Re: X Server Crash
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Kent West wrote:
As Kevin suggested, you should be able to run "dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86", and select "vesa" as your driver rather than "s3".
You'll be limited perhaps in color depth or resolution, etc, but at
least you'll have a working X (hopefully).
Thanks a lot for your help. With 'vesa' drivers I can start X, only that I
hope you could also have specified that I also should have set the colour
depth to 16 bits. Not very satisfactory results as you mentioned. How do I
get better drivers do you know
1) It's recommended that you reply to the list rather than to private
email. This has two advantages: 1) you have more eyes looking at your
problem, which increases your chances of getting an answer, and 2) the
answers get archived, which can help people in the future with similar
problems.
2) Also, although you bottom-posted, which is a very good thing, you did
so after my signature. My signature is preceded with the "-- " line, which
tells many email readers to ignore anything after that line as being a
signature, and thus not relevant to the body of the message. I manually
compensated for that in this reply by copy/paste.
3) To address your actual issue: I'm too lazy to go back and read your
original post, but I vaguely recall you asking how you can get X to work
without upgrading any software. I'm afraid that if the software you
currently have installed doesn't provide you with what you need, there's
not much you can do without upgrading. There are three basic routes you
can follow:
1) upgrade to Testing or Unstable, in order to get a newer version of X
that solves your issue.
2) sidegrade to a newer version of X built for stable, such as from
backports.org
3) contact your video card manufacturer for a driver that works for your
card on Debian stable.
--
Kent
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