On 6 Oct 2003, Jon Haugsand wrote:
> > The Dell C400 is troublesome, in particular with Debian since its > policy of conservative upgrades. Anyway, I have downloaded the > following packages: > > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody1 20030307145421 marcelo@) > kernel-source-2.4.22 > > The kernel recompiled with settings as recommended. However, when > issuing startx, the screens goes black, 30-60 seconds goes by, > suddenly the screen looks X like with the X mouse pointer, but then I > am back to console mode again. Looking into the > /var/log/XFree86.0.log and grepping out (WW), (EE) and Warning, I get > this: <snip> > > Any idea of what goes wrong? Or how to debug my situation? <snip> a quick google search found this: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html although I did not vet it, it seem to mention the i830 issues as well as a new xf86 help doc. Cheers! -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
