On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 23:48 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > 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!
Trying the vmware option hangs qemu or is it Hurd? qemu -m 256 -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -hda hurd-install.qemu -vga vmware Loading GNU Mach ... Loading the Hurd ... unaligned pointer 0x8ecc0002 Aborted. Press any key to exit. Pressing any key does not help. A complete reboot is necessary! Adding -curses the hang happens at the display of: 640 x 350 Graphic mode -- 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/1288942718.3471.61.ca...@hp.my.own.domain
