Re: Compaq Contura 4/25c Successful Upgrade to Woody

2004-06-27 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Just an update. I was easily to get X working using the xserver-svga package and a modeline which I somehow discovered using some voodoo and black magic back in 1997 or so. However, I notice I was getting the dreaded "VC text console corruption" problem upon starting X. I corrected this by comp

Re: Compaq Contura 4/25c Successful Upgrade to Woody

2004-06-27 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Just an update. I was easily to get X working using the xserver-svga package and a modeline which I somehow discovered using some voodoo and black magic back in 1997 or so. However, I notice I was getting the dreaded "VC text console corruption" problem upon starting X. I corrected this by comp

Compaq Contura 4/25c Successful Upgrade to Woody

2004-06-27 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Working on getting my laptop previously running Slink updated to Woody. I was really having a tough time of this upgrade, any 2.2+ kernel from debian either crashed or corrupted the filesystem. The inability to install modultils kept making apt-get dist-upgrade fail. Eventually I got the base

Compaq Contura 4/25c Successful Upgrade to Woody

2004-06-27 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Working on getting my laptop previously running Slink updated to Woody. I was really having a tough time of this upgrade, any 2.2+ kernel from debian either crashed or corrupted the filesystem. The inability to install modultils kept making apt-get dist-upgrade fail. Eventually I got the base sy