That did not work for me at all. However since the .deb packages of xorg 6.8.2 dissapeared, 6.9 and 7.0 will give a black screen of death, so I had to go back to Xfree86 from stable to get my system up again, I've never been able to start 6.9/7.0
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:44, david wrote: > As a starting point you might like to try (as root, from the cmd line) > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > This will do a number of things, dpkg will report on the status of your > xwindow installation if it is deficient and you will have the > opportunity to set up the xserver (the defaults for mac are a good > starting point). The installation manual > http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ > has a full description on how to set up X for ppc. > > You might also like to run (from the cmd line) > > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > > as well. Sometimes an upgrade exits before everything is installed. Your > system may prompt you to do some stuff :) > > david > > Jim wrote: > > Hello, I am running debian sarge on a powerpc and not to long ago I > > ran synaptic to update everything,I don'nt know what I did but now I > > X will not run after I ran the update I rebooted and now all I get is > > a black screen with the text login. > > I tried to run startx but it told me that is was not executible. > > How can I get my window manager running again? > > Thanks > > Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
