Hi,
On a fresh Debian 2.0 installation I am having severe
problems running X. It seems like some hardware incompatibility
and I've exhausted my own knowledge of what to try. I have to
suspect the video and scsi cards but they work together just
fine in text mode.
Now for the details:
Symptoms: When I "startx" the monitor clicks, and appears to go into
text mode with a blank screen. No further keyboard input
is recognized except Crtl-Alt-Del which cleanly reboots
the machine. None of {Crtl-Alt-Backspace, Crtl-Alt-F2, etc..}
work to get back out of X. Output from startx and
"strace -f startx" show nothing helpful.
Software: A fresh Debian 2.0 install with XF86_S3
as the xserver (xserver-s3_3.3.2.2-4.deb).
Hardware: Number Nine GXE64 2Mb video card (~4 years old)
Symbios 53c875 based scsi card (Diamond Fireport 40) (new)
5 scsi devices of various ages (cdrom and disks)
Abit BX6 motherboard w 64MB PC100 memory (new)
Intel PII 233 MHz cpu (given to me -- unknown history)
Sony 200sx monitor (~2 years old)
modem, soundcard, ethernet card (old)
PS/2 style mouse, keyboard
I tried with the soundcard and ethernet card removed. Same problem.
During the installation, the xbase-configure program worked fine
up to the point where it tries to run XF86_S3. The XF86_VGA16
server works fine during the xbase-configure program. Naturally
rebooting at that stage of the installation caused a few problems.
I had previously been running Debian 1.3 on an Intel 486 66MHz machine
that used the same video, monitor, modem, soundcard, nic. I used to
use an ncr53c810 scsi card also but had to buy the Diamond Fireport 40
since the new motherboard bios did not recognize the old scsi card.
I tries various bios settings. I made sure there are no memory
holes or memory shadowing settings enabled. I also tried having
the bios assign an irq to the video card -- it made no difference.
So, can anyone recommend a solution or course of action? I will try
another video card if I can borrow one but I am really suprised that
my old faithful S3 based card is not working with this new setup.
Perhaps I should have bought a buslogic scsi card instead?
thanks in advance,
Stuart
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