On Sep Sat 06 2003 02:54, Brendan J Simon wrote: > Hi All, > > I've tried endlessly to get X going on my PB17 but no luck. I can't > understand why it is so hard :( > I've tried all sorts of benh kernels (2.4.20, 2.4.21, 2.4.22). > I've tried lots of different XF86Config-4's from various people that > have X working. > I've tried various versions of xfree86 (debian/unstable and Michael's > dri-trunk). > I've tried with and with out "video=ofonly" > > Nothing seems to work. X -probeonly doesn't give any errors but when I > use "startx" the screen just goes blank. I can't seem to kill X but I > can login via ssh from a remote machine. I did try killing some > processes and noticed that the screen was still black. I looked closer > and I could see the console but it was very very faint. > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong??? > > I really really REALLY want to get this going soon. I have been trying > for 3 months now (on and off) and I'm going on holidays soon and what to > take my laptop with me. If I can't get it going then I will have to > resort to using MacOS-X and I don't really like the interface much. > > Thanks for any help, suggestions or pointers. > Brendan Simon.
What about sending some X log? :-) Perhaps some guru here might have a bright idea ;-) -- J. Javier Maestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://rigel.homelinux.com
