Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - There is some garbage just after kernel starts booting. By garbage > I mean some green semi-graphic rectangular shape in the middle of > the display. Reminds me the TRS-80 (these were the good old > days...)
Garbage? And here I thought the kernel maintainers were giving us some abstract art to look at while booting... > - The penguin logo is still sitting at the top left corner all the > time, blocking about 4 lines of screen. I can't get rid of it. I > tried everything in yaboot.conf (video=ofonly, video=atyfb, > video=aty128fb in various combinations). Looks like an add banner in > my console. I wonder what is causing it to happen. At one point I > didn't have that, that was with 2.2.19 I think (there have been so > many configs I tried... I kinda forgot.) Ethan suggested "setterm -reset" in another thread. Does that work? I've never seen this on my tibook though. > - Finally X windows won't start up. Period. It has nothing to do > with kernel 2.4.8. It has been like that even since I did the update > to woody. If I enter the command startx, it tells me that it can't > stat /etc/X11/X. Hm, strange. Do you have the `xserver-xfree86' package installed? > All of that after a simple testing upgrade on top of stable (which I > need because XF86 3.x won't work with aty128 on iBook.) What's weird > is that I had to go and edit the inittab to bump the run level from > 2->5. Installing X, I thought that it would do that for me. I > thought wrong. Er, why would installing X change the default runlevel? In Debian, the runlevels (well, 2-5) are there for your customization; they don't differ unless you personally make them different. Do you want X to start when you boot your computer? If so, you probably want a graphical login manager like gdm or kdm.
