On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 13:42 +0100, Adrian Lester wrote: > > Following execution of the startx command the screen goes blank (as > expected), gives a momentary flick of light (as expected) and then reverts to > blankness. > > My network is up and running. I have tried both 'startx' and 'startxfce4'. > > A ps -ax executed via an ssh session now gives: > 532 tty1 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/X11/startx > 543 tty1 S+ 0:00 xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- > /usr/X11R6/ > 544 ? R< 0:43 /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp > > I have put the resulting X log files at: > http://www.soton.ac.uk/~ajl199/xlogs/ > > The machine is an ibook G3 900 and its graphics card according to lspci is: > ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
On some iBooks, the DRI only works with AGP 4x for some reason. Try disabling it by not loading the "dri" X server; if that helps, you'll have to fix your AGP setup if you want it. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
