Hello,
I went ahead and installed Woody as per your instructions and also
taking help from http://tinyplanet.ca/pubs/debian/html/x241.html. Well
everything seemed to work fine untill I went to configure xf82cfg. It
brought up a gui interface but my mouse didn't work. I tried different
options but it didn't work. I configured the video card (i810) and the
monitor using the keyboard and saved the setting. However when trying to
start up X the screen went blank and then gave a bunch of errors. I am
posting some of it which I thought might be important. If you would like
to have a look at the entire log file I can email that too.
.....
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a
(II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2
(II) Loading font Type1
(II) Loading font CID
(II) LoadModule: "vbe"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a
(II) Module vbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4
(II) LoadModule: "xie"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a
(II) Module xie: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension XIE
(II) LoadModule: "apm"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/apm_drv.o
(II) Module apm: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.2
(II) APM: driver for the Alliance chipsets: AP6422, AT24, AT3D
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:01:0
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
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...........
Pleae let me know if I am missing something simple anywhere. Thanks a
lot for all the help from everyone. I had given up hope of seeing gui on
my box until the xf86config window came up and now I am optimistic again
that one day I will be able to get it to work right.
Thanks all of you
Rahul
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:09 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem installing Intel 810 video under debian
begin Rahul Agarwal quotation:
> Thanks for you reply. Yes I am using potato. Would you really
> recommend using Woody for a novice? What kind of problems could I run
> into. Also do I need to rebuild the system for istalling Woody or it
> can be installed over potato.
You certainly don't need to rebuild the system to switch to Woody; you
just edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file to add the testing branch,
then dselect or apt-get can move you over with relatively little
trouble. Unfortunately, I don't really remember if I ran into any
problems in doing that, as it was quite a while ago, but in theory it's
supposed to be a simple transition.
As for whether Woody is appropriate for a novice, well, that probably
depends on how sophisticated a novice you are. If you're reasonably
computer-literate (enough to install a Debian system from scratch in the
first place), then it shouldn't be too bad. The main potential problem
with the testing branch is that it's always possible that some new
package might break things... that's why it's called "testing". However,
the likelihood of things breaking so badly that you have to rebuild the
system is pretty minimal. New packages don't enter testing until they've
survived at least a few days of use in the unstable branch, so it's
quite infrequent that anything really disastrous happens in Woody.
If the machine in question is a mission-critical system that can't
afford to have problems, then it probably ought to run Potato. If it's
your personal workstation, then I'd choose Woody or Sid (unstable)
according to how willing, able, and inclined you are to deal with the
problems that can crop up in the unstable branch.
Craig
