On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:45:29PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I have rebuilt my machine up to sid after the first major system loss > in over 5 years of using Debian, about three weeks ago. Now X11 > refuses to work. X stopped suddenly in the middle of a session, some > time after upgrading to 4.1.0-0pre1v5 by "the usual" apt-get > dist-upgrade that I do every few days. [...] > Perhaps I ought to get off the "bleeding edge," as I am somewhat > lacking in relevant skills; however, sid has improved in so many ways > that I am reluctant to abandon it.
I hope you are aware that 4.1.0-0pre1v5 isn't part of "sid". It isn't even an official Debian package at all. It's an experimental one. > (**) MGA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 24 > (==) MGA(0): RGB weight 888 > (**) MGA(0): Option "UseFBDev" "true" As the debconf question indicates, using fbdev may be a problem; dpkg-reconfigure, and consider turning it off. > (II) Loading sub module "mga_hal" > (II) LoadModule: "mga_hal" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o > (II) Module mga_hal: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3 > (II) MGA(0): Matrox HAL module used As I understand it, the HAL module is not necessary in XFree86 4.1.0 for basic functionality. Consider moving this module out of the way. > This is disconcerting. But I am confident it will work out. You're using experimental XFree86 packages in conjunction with a closed source server module that Debian doesn't supply, and using a server option that is known to cause problems in some configurations (for all I know, it is the combination of mga_hal and fbdevhw that is the problem; both are ways of communicating with the MGA hardware). Unless you're interested in being a guinea pig, I suggest a more conservative approach. Otherwise, I suggest we take this problem report upstream. Thanks for your thorough bug report; the log and configuration files made it possible for me to diagnose a few possible culprits. -- G. Branden Robinson | Never underestimate the power of human Debian GNU/Linux | stupidity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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