Re: X in Sid

From: Uwe Dippel (udippel_at_uniten.edu.my)
Date: 02/24/04

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    Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:03:00 +0800
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    On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:30:06 +0100, Curtis Howland wrote:

    > Sorry I cannot quote, part of the "no X" problem. I
    > don't have errors, because, as someone else pointed
    > out,
    > this problem leaves no errors in the log file.

    That sounds too strange to me. If it didn't start, the log file will
    surely take note.

    > The problem is, I don't use an automatic manager, I
    > always startx. So the fix mentioned in digest #660 won't work. Anyone
    > who wants to take a look at the Xfree.log, try http://68.101.3.223:8080/

    Looks pretty good. So what do you get ? No hatched grey area with the
    cross / mouse ? What else ? Can you be more precise ? You startx, wait,
    what happens ? How long do you wait ? After a minute or half you can
    always use Ctrl+Alt+Backslash to kill X. What would be the output
    afterwards ?

    > The reason for a reinstall is that I've read that Sid X is broken

    Not that I knew. Upgraded today and *had* it broken; but due to 4.2.1
    moving to 4.3.0. Had to reconfigure X, because it killed the proprietary
    ATI-Radeon driver. Now I'm happy to be off this thingy and running pure X.
    As an aside.

    >From the log, it seems you run a heavily configured XF86Config. My
    personal experience is usually that this is not always functional. Better
    cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.oldie and try a new one,
    with either method, like xf86config, XFree86 -configure xf86cfg or
    similar (there is a Debian-one, but I don't remember). This won't do great
    video, but should get your X server back up. Then tweak this a bit and off
    you go. Usually. So had I this morning to get X back up after the update.

    Hope this helps,

    Uwe 

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