Re: possible kernel dependency bug?
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:54 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:32:43PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
>
> > I just installed debian from the cd
> >
> > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20031201)
> >
> > After installing, I used tasksel to choose a desktop environment and selected linux.csua.berkeley.edu as my mirror.
> >
> > During install, it downloaded and installed X version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1.. I selected ati as my driver, as I have a radeon 7000.
> >
> > X failed to start with an error that it could not load the radeon kernel module and that it could not find the mouse device.
> >
> > After upgrading the 2.2 kernel from the cd to 2.4.27-10, X started up normally.
> >
> > Is this an error in the dependencies of the X packages? If so, I can file it as a bug for you.
>
> No, just disable DRI and you should be able to run on the 2.2 kernel just
> fine.
For the record, failure to load the kernel module doesn't cause an X
server startup failure but just the DRI to be disabled anyway.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
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