----- Forwarded message from David Luyer <david_luyer@pacific.net.au> ----- From: David Luyer <david_luyer@pacific.net.au> To: miles@speakeasy.org Cc: branden@debian.org Subject: Re: linux-2.4.0-test10 and X4.0.1 don't like each other on Libretto 110CT Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:49:40 +1100 Delivered-To: branden@localhost.deadbeast.net Delivered-To: branden@deadbeast.net Message-Id: <200011080049.eA80ne818603@typhaon.pacific.net.au> You wrote: > > You must upgrade to the latest release: 4.0.1e > > The fix for this problem went into 4.0.1d, but since you > need to upgrade, you might as well get the latest code. Are you sure about that? The package I'm running, mentioned below, corresponds to: XFree86 Version 4.0.1d / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 27 October 2000 So, it's not fixed in the 4.0.1d I'm running, unless that was a non-final 4.0.1d. (Copied to the Debian X maintainer.) David. > Miles > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, David Luyer wrote: > > > > > I'm having problems with X 4.0.1 and 2.4.0-test kernels on a Toshiba Libretto > > 110CT. Is this likely to be related to a known problem or can someone > > recommend some random intermediate kernel versions to try (binary elimination > > avoiding known-bad kernel versions...)? > > > > H/w: Toshiba Libretto 110CT (NM2160), Xircom CEM336 modem/ethernet > > S/w: Debian woody as at Wed Nov 8, with old xserver-svga package for testing > > > > Kernel xserver-xfree86 4.0.1-1 xserver-svga 3.3.6-10 > > 2.4.0-test10 Fail OK > > 2.4.0-test4pre3 Fail OK > > 2.2.15 (Debian build) OK OK > > > > "Fail" here means X startup results in a blank LCD, unable to switch to > > text consoles either, SAK results in a screen full of previous graphics-mode > > display on LCD, even if it was pre-reboot, at that screen it is possible to > > type (although not to see the result), login, reboot the system, try a > > different version of X, etc (as long as you can remember what you've typed). > > > > Thanks for any help, > > David. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to have been branden@deadbeast.net | garbled. http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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