"W. Crowshaw" wrote: > > At 8:54 PM +0100 12/5/00, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >"W. Crowshaw" wrote: > >> > >> Since I could get X 3.3.6 running on my Debian 2.2.17 installed > >> PowerMac 7500 (4MB VRAM, 604e ), > > > >What was the problem with 3.3.6? > Pretty much the same problem. X wouldn't come up, either at startup > or startx. Sure, I believe start up tries to bring up X with xdm, > but all that happened was the screened blink black three times and > showed the login prompt. I posted a description of this problem to > the powerpc-debian list, but no one seemed to be able to solve the > problem.
Error logs would be interesting. Something like 'startx &> X.log'. > Hmm...I didn't know that. Could you point me to those 4.0.2 debs? Put this in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/$(ARCH)/ > Oh..and before I upgrade to woody I would like to get potato up and > working first, if that's possible. potato means 3.3.x so far. > >> The most important changed seems to be the BUSID in the "Device > >> Section." Running "cat /proc/pci", I got two BusID alternatives: either > >> "PCI:0:11:0" for Bandit or "PCI:0:16:0" for Grand. Alternating between > >> both options seems to make no difference. > > > >Have you tried without the bus ID? :) > > > I tried it without, but I just got 2 more error messages: > > (EE) FBDev(0): No Display subsection in Screen section "ScreenOne" > for depth/fbbpp 32/32 > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > But, as you can see from my previous post XF86Config file, there is > definitely a 'display' subsection of the 'Screen' section. But there is no depth 32. If you want 32 bpp, that's depth 24, fbbpp 32, so you need a Display Subsection with Depth 24 and FbBpp 32. > >> My second problem with installed X 4.0.1 relates to xfs. Previously, > >> using X 3.3.6, the font server would always come up on startup, even > >> when X itself failed. With X 4.0.1, now xfs also fails. On startup I > >> get the following message: > >> "Starting X font server: xfs/usr/bin/X11/xfs: error in loading shared > >> libraries: libXfont.so./: cannot open shared object file: No such > > ^ > >I assume this should be a '1'? > > > > Yes, that was a typo. It really is '1' on 'one.' > >> file or directory" > > > >Have you installed the 4.x libraries and run ldconfig after that? > > > Which libraries are you referring to? The X libraries, most of all the new ones like libXfont which xfs doesn't find. > I definitely didn't run ldconfig. This might be the reason for xfs not finding it. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project
