On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:14:46AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> I did apt-get upgrade yesterday. Now X kills my powerbook stone dead
> every time I run it. All I see is a flashing cursor in the top left for
> a couple of seconds and then the box turns off. xorg.conf is untouched,
> so I don't know what the cause would be. I've tried trapping output and
> errors from startx but the machine is dying too quickly.
>
> It's definitely X. There was a kernel upgrade at the same time but the
> old kernel shows the same behaviour.
>
> I'm using a Powerbook G4 (albook), running the testing distro.
Known bug in xorg 6.9, try to go back to 6.8 if you can.
I don't know if 7.0 is ready or not (it is in experimental
but not yet built for PPC).
For now I'm using my AlBook in console only. I'd like
to try a newer version, but X is the _only_ package
I have _never_ been able to compile myself.
Well, I have not tried recently, but I tried on
a daily basis for about one month a few years
ago and gave up, completely disgusted. I literally
spent tens of hours readng the docs, trying to
understand the build process and ultimately failed.
Regards,
Gabriel
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