I've got a grave problem with X, I'd like to ask for help on the mailing list before I submit a bug.
When I try to start X (using either startx or xdm, I didn't try xinit), it starts loading, and then the computer freezes up utterly. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't shutdown X, Alt-Fn doesn't switch over to a console. The computer is completely gone. This all started last week as libc6 was being raised to version 2.2 (I think the problem started with v 2.1.97, and then remained with v2.2). At the same time, the XFree86 v 4.0.1 packages went through revisions 4.0.1-3 through to -5. I had XFree86 4.0.1 working from Debian revision 1, which came up two or three weeks ago. I installed the server, xfree86-xfree, and it was working fine (This is on a Toshiba 490CDT laptop with an S3 ViRGE video chipset). It only stopped working last week with the upgrades I just mentioned. I tried recompiling the kernel, upgrading it from 2.2.17 to 2.2.18-pre21 in fact. I tried purging the xfree86 packages (though, true, some config files remained in /etc/X11 I think). After reinstalling, X still doesn't work. I don't know if the problem is XFree86 or libc6 or what. I tried catching output by piping output to file: "startx 2>&1 > startx.log", but the file wasn't there after rebooting after the freeze. Likewise "strace -o startx.log startx" didn't leave a file. I've run out of ideas. Does anyone have clues? Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
