On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 23:27 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Wed 03 Nov 2010 22:27:52 +0100, a écrit : .. > > I tried to start X with the cirrus driver and got hit by Debian bug > > #590715 reported for 2:1.7.7-3 (with patch by Samuel) and another for > > fbdevhw, see below. > > Mmm, I guess you are overestimating the consequences of this bug: it > disables a couple of things, but you should get an Xorg server working. > If all you get is a black screen, you're most probably hit by the "we > don't like showing a mouse cursor" crazyness of Xorg people, that is you > have a working X server, but you didn't start any client (e.g. use > xinit /usr/bin/xterm to start one).
I did get a black screen, then X was shut down with the messages copied manually in my previous mail. Good news however. Creating an .xinitrc file exec'ing wmaker I have an X desktop running. Yippee! It does not seem too much slower than without X. Will try the vmware driver next! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1288824507.3471.53.ca...@hp.my.own.domain
