Hi: I recently changed from woody to unstable. Initially had some problems because some packages had been removed and others had not been installed. But by repeated use of apt-get -f now it seems OK. apt-get check gives no errors.
However I have problems running Xwindows. I have an TVGA8900D card and I am using XF86_SVGA server. This was what I had been using successfully with woody. I ran xf86config and copied the clock lines from my previous XF86Config file to XF86Config-4. I also changed the driver from vga to "trident", following instructions in the documentation. When I type startx, I get: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), abort. I discovered that there is no X file in /etc/X11, but there is one in /usr/bin/X11/ as well as /usr/X11R6/bin/ . According to the man page the X file should be a link. Now X is an actual file. So how does one tell the computer what server we need? There was a file called Xserver in /etc/X11. In that I indicated that the server was /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA. I now copied X to /etc/X11 and typed startx. Now I get: waiting for X server to begein accepting connections and it waits for ever. Lastly, I tried: xinit --/usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA Now the server appears to start, but I then get the fatal error message: xf86OpenConsole: server must be running with root permission. YOu should be using Xwrapper ..... At this point, I am lost. Any hints about how to proceed from here? Thanks. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810
