Re: X-Windows Problems
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed
> > > to get gdm to start but if I switch to a console I lose the window and
> > > must restart gdm. Equally frustrating, my Wacom tablet mouse is not
> > > recognized though it worked perfectly in Sarge and the wacom module is
> > > installed.
> > >
> > > This may be because I have not yet installed x-window-system-core.
> > > Apt-get reports that this package and 457 other packages are not
> > > installed as they cannot be verified. Should I go ahead and install
> > > them anyway?
[...]
> > Testing is using Xorg instead of Xfree86. Once you have downloaded the
> > archive keys and completed the upgrade, you can try "dpkg-reconfigure
> > xserver-xorg". (This should happen automatically during the upgrade
> > anyway.)
> >
> > If you still have problems with Xorg after that, post the output of the
> > following three commands:
> >
> > lspci | grep -i vga
> > awk '/Section "(Device|Monitor|Screen)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[...]
> Thank you for you assistance, Florian. I am attaching the output of
> apt-key list and sources.list.
>
>
> /etc/apt/trusted.gpg
> --------------------
> pub 1024R/1DB114E0 2004-01-15 [expired: 2005-01-27]
> uid Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2004) <ftpmaster@debian.org>
>
> pub 1024D/4F368D5D 2005-01-31 [expired: 2006-01-31]
> uid Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2005) <ftpmaster@debian.org>
>
> pub 1024D/B5F5BBED 2005-04-24
> uid Debian AMD64 Archive Key <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>
> sub 2048g/34FC6FE5 2005-04-24
>
> pub 1024D/2D230C5F 2006-01-03 [expires: 2007-02-07]
> uid Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006) <ftpmaster@debian.org>
[...]
> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
That looks OK to me; the only thing that I notice is that you are
missing Christian Marillat's signing key. I would propose to ignore this
for now and to just comment out the ftp.nerim.net line. (I also think
you have to change "sarge" to "etch" or "testing" now.) When the problem
with X/gdm is settled you can always get the key as described here
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/05/msg02309.html
and install what you want from Marillat's packages.
[...]
I think your problem is the result of an incomplete transition from
XFree86 to Xorg. With the ftp.nerim.net line commented out, try "apt-get
update" again. If apt is still missing some amd64-specific keys (I don't
know too much about those) then it should at least give you the numbers
of those keys. Post these numbers here and we can tell you were to find
the corresponding keys.
With all keys provided you should be able to do "apt-get install -f" to
fix all unresolved issues. Once that works without errors and an
"apt-get dist-upgrade" tells you that there are no more packages to
upgrade, you should have a working Xorg. If that does not work we have
to take a closer look, but first apt-get has to bring your system into a
consistent state by completing the upgrade.
--
Regards,
Florian
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