Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 20:21:19 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
Maybe this is related:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474504

This seems to be exactly the problem that I am having. If this problem
has been around since at least April of last year and had not been
resolved by August, you would think that there would be more emphasis on
trying to resolve it.

Nobody had time to look into in April/May, and then it probably got
forgotten, as new bugs and work came in for the X maintainers. The
release freeze does not help either.

I would think that others would have come across
this bug and want to have it fixed.

The fact that nobody inquired about the status or sent a "me too" report
probably contributed to the fact that the bug was not given a higher
priority.

It makes things much harder in my
household, that's for sure. How do I follow up on this and try to get
it resolved. I have never had to file a bug report, so I really don't
know how to proceed.

You can use the web interface of the BTS to send a follow-up message,
stating that you have the problem, too. Ask if there is any possibility
that this can be addressed before the release of Lenny and what you can
do to help. The maintainers will let know what kind of information you
can contribute if someone starts working on the problem.

You can also check out http://bugs.freedesktop.org to see if anything
relevant has happened upstream since last May.

Yon can try if Xorg from experimental and/or kernel 2.6.28 improve the
situation. (Did you try to put additional options into xorg.conf as I
suggested earlier?)

I would probably be tempted to buy an nvidia or ati card and dump the
sis driver.

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