On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:06:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem starting X4.2. It tells me: > > *** > (WW) s3(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (<memmory addresses>) > Symbol xf86InterpretEDID from module /usr/..../modules/libvbe.a unresolved! > > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Error: bad length in Symbols > Output file "/var/tmp/server-0.xkm" removed > > Could not load XKB keymap, falling back tp pre-XKB keymap > > waiting for the server to shutdown > *** > > I have no idea what this means to me. My problem is, that i had x4.2 running > on this machine. But it > was the binary release from XFree86 self.
Ouchy. You didn't install a non-Debian release of X into /usr/, did you? > No i have romoved that one and installed the Debian-unstable X4.2 > release (i need X4.2 beacause of the S3 chip support). How could i > get this running again? Its fairly urgent... Any hints are welcome :)) You've got bits from the binary tarball lying around on your machine, and they're messing up your current X install. You have to find a way to replace everything from before with the files from the Debian packages. -rob
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