Re: X-Windows Problems

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?

Which archive signing keys are known to your apt-key? Post the output of
"apt-key list" and the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then
we can tell you which ones are missing (and how to install them). I
would first try to complete the upgrade and install all packages before
addressing the X problem.

[...]

Next I ran apt-get dist-upgrade. After this the ethernet connection
failed, gdm tried to start repeatedly and failed and there was a message
that udev required kernel 2.6.12 or higher. I had 2.6.11.

Next I booted from a bbc-2.1 cd and used lynx to find and download the
linux-2.6.15 kernel source from the Debian website. I compiled this
kernel using the .config from the 2.6.11 kernel directory, updated
lilo.conf, and booted from the new kernel. The ethernet connection was
restored but gdm still would not start. I tried dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86 without success.

Next I recalled that previously I had solved this problem by running
xf86config from /usr/X11R6/bin. The upgrade had deleted this program
but I recovered it from another computer and ran it. This created an
XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and then gdm could start.

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

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Regards,
Florian


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