Xorg not working after botched upgrade
On an old box, which rarely gets much attention since it usually "just works".
It's my fault, no doubt. I looked at the sources.list before I ran the
dist-upgrade, but it completely slipped my mind that the "testing" that was
on the box was still etch, and I should have changed "testing" to "stable". I
didn't, so now it's lenny.
Now, kdm opens the login screen, apparently at the maximum resolution of the
monitor (1600x1200), but the video signal stops as soon as I log in. It
blackscreens, then kdm reloads the login screen. I checked the xorg.conf file
and tweaked settings, ran dpkg-reconfigure on it, and even tried running it
with the old config file. There aren't any glaring errors from the driver
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the only error reported is:
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
The video card is:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01)
using the tdfx driver. This is correct. The config sets it up to run at
1280x1024 24-bit depth, which is also correct. The monitor is a Viewsonic
GT775.
I have never seen kdm successfully display a login screen when X wouldn't open
a session. In my experience, if there's a bad X problem, kdm doesn't work
either. Any ideas?
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Carl Brown
Whitefield, NH USA
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