hah. I thought I had enough skills to do this (and no, man apt-get, didn't seem to help me either - :) ).
I put Branden's line in my sources.list (deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ sid/i386/) and did an apt-get update and upgrade, and it all looked fine and dandy that 8 packages relating to X were being upgraded. I went through their configuration, clicking okay that they were experimental packages etc.... however, it never fully upgraded them... startx still tries to load X 4.1..... running apt-get upgrade again, i get... the following packages have been kept back libdps1 libxaw7 xbase-clients xlibmesa3 xlibs xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xutils 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Did I forget something? How can I fix please? Thanks, Brad. --- Bill Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This card worked fine for me under X 3.36, but > failed under > Woody's X 4.1, which I find a little puzzling. > > I wound up using Branden's somewhat experimental > XFree86 4.2 > located at: > > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ > > There's a list of mirrors at: > > http://raw.no/x4.2/ > > It's working fine for me now, but I still haven't > worked > out all of the apt pinning issues to keep it up to > date. > That's high on my to-do list, so someday.... > > HTH and Good Luck, > > Bill > > (Continuing top-posting because that's the way this > thread > is going.) > > On 9/25/02 9:34 AM, "b d" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Bart et all, > > > > Um, I'm sorry, I couldn't find where to disable > the > > kernel frame buffer.... I had previously crafted > my > > XF86Config file from hand... but I did as you said > and > > did a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and didn't > see > > any mention of kernel frame buffer.... also > couldn't > > find it in the kernel compilation configuration. > I > > also did a quick google and couldn't find any > mention > > of this problem...... > > > > I'm not missing anything simple am I? > > > > Any further help appreciated! This is driving me > up > > the wall! > > > > Brad > > > > Bart Verweire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > in > > message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've had the same problem, and found the > following > > solution somewhere on the net > >> : > >> during the X configuration (using > dpkg-reconfigure > > xserver ?), debian proposes > >> to use a 'kernel frame buffer' (don't have my > debian > > at hand at this moment, so > >> I'm not sure about the terminology). The default > > setting is yes (debian saying > >> that it is safe to do so). In my case, I had to > > disable the kernel frame buffer. > >> And it now works without a problem. > >> > >> hope to help. > >> > >> Bart > >> > >> b wrote: > >> > >>> Hi folks: > >>> > >>> I have a question - I have gotten X working with > > woody on a fair number of > >>> machines, but this one confuses me. The video > > card is a 32 MB ATI Rage 128. > >>> Since it was a fairly new workstation, I > installed > > RedHat 7.3 as well, and X > >>> worked out of the box - then reinstalled Woody, > > and compared XF86Config > >>> files, and found no substantial differences..... > I > > upgraded and recompiled a > >>> 2.4.19 kernel as well with AGP support and DRI > for > > the ATI R128 compiled > >>> right into the kernel. > >>> > >>> Someone please help if you have any ideas...... > (I > > apologize if there is a > >>> more proper place for this posting...) > >>> > >>> The short description: The error is "no screens > > found" > >>> > >>> following is my XF86Config file, and following > > that (sorry for the length) > >>> is the log output detailing the errors... > >>> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
