Here's how I ironed out the problems in my system after upgrading from Potato to Woody:
* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [250201 21:56]: I was pretty sure everything other than my GUI and Sound was working properly based on watching the screen messages during boot and perusing dmesg. The only problem I really seemed to be having was logging into my Gnome desktop and getting sound working (error messages during boot told me this was not working) > Regarding Sound: I have an Soundblaster AWE64 that was running fine prior > to the upgrade. Now, for some reason, there are errors occurring when > the sound modules are loaded. Loading during boot fails and when I attempt > to load the modules manually I get "unresolved symbol" errors. Do I need > to recompile my kernel? It appeared to me that the way modules were handled > changed somewhat between Potato and Woody (I did not remember there being as > many items in /etc/modutils/ as there appear to be now). Any suggestions? > What additional information do you need to help with troubleshooting? A recompile using the 2.4.1 kernel solved this problem. Had to fiddle a bit with which modules to install, but otherwise I did not have much trouble with this one -- the "unresolved symbol" errors were the clue. Oh..and modutils did change significantly. If you are running the newer kernel (2.4.1), you need the modutils package with the matching version number (modutils 2.4.1). I scrubbed menuconfig pretty closely and completely redid my kernel. A few nice things were better support for the SB AWE 32/64 and 3dfx Video Cards ( both of which I needed!). Turns out that you pretty much have to recompile the 2.4.1 kernel to support a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 card. Compiling in the necessary 3dfx video support is what creates the tdfx driver you'll use with the XFree86 server (/usr/bin/X11/XFree86). > Regarding X or Gnome: I can get to the Gnome login screen and everything > looks fine at that point. When I type in my user name and password, the > screen flicks off and when it comes back into view I'm still at the Gnome > login screen. In case it is relevant, my preferred Window Manger is > Enlightenment. Suggestions? I'm not well-versed in "X" so I'll need you to > tell me what files I should look for and provide to the forum and I will. > Does this sound like it is an X problem or a Gnome/Enlightenment problem? After recompiling the kernel, fixing the sound problem and creating the tdfx driver, I still could not login to my Gnome Desktop so... I pretty much reinstalled X, a bit at a time, to get this situation resolved. I started by following the HOWTO article at http://www.debianplanet.org on how to configure X4 to run with 3dfx cards. My goal was not to do it piecemeal (I was NOT trying to troubleshoot); it just ended up that way. For what its worth, X4 seems to run faster than its predecessor! The gist of it was this: kill x by ctrl-alt-backspace or whatever your preferred method is. I got stuck in a loop with gdm bringing me back to the login screen so I had to do a "kill gdm" #dpkg --purge xserver-svga #apt-get update #apt-get install task-x-window-system libglide3* The apt-get will remove gdm and install xdm in its place. I figured this was okay. However, "startx" caused problems so I reinstalled "gdm" #apt-get install gdm and was able to get back to the gdm login screen. Throughout this entire adventure I noticed that approximately 6 packages were on hold and never upgraded: task-x-window-system-core and a number of xfonts. I'm guessing that having the task-x-window-system-core files on hold is what was screwing things up (though I never remember placing them on hold). After issuing an "apt-get" install on the core files and various fonts, I deleted /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (leftover from previous attempts) and created a new file with xf86config. I then shutdown and restarted gdm and managed to login to my desktop! Hoo-rah. task-x-window-system should have been the complete X environment. Something was goofed on my system...hopefully its not on yours. Hope this helps someone else, rob DISCLAIMER: I spent the better part of a day "fiddling" with my system to get it all working again. I have to admit that much of what I was doing was poking and prodding at X. I may have missed some of the details of what I did so please do not take this account of my activities as gospel truth. Hopefully it will give you ideas of your own to use in solving your problem.
