Joe Mc Cool wrote:
Sarge, and with either 2.2 or 2.6 kernels: at boot up I get a login prompt at the F1 console ok. After about 10 secs, the screen goes blank.After another very long delay I get an hour glass in the middle on the screen at F7.There is another very long delay before I get a KDE login prompt.
while running say: startx -- :1 vt8 for a very long time top reports that XFree86 is consuming over 90% of cpu running: tail -f /var/log/XFree86.1.log gives: ============================================== .... .... (II) Loading sub module "ddc" (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Loading sub module "ddc" (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE DDC supported (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE DDC Level none (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 0 sec. very long delay here (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE DDC read successfully (II) S3VIRGE(0): Manufacturer: @@@ Model: 0 Serial#: 0 .... etc and away it goes ================================================================ thanks Joe