Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:37:41 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Bibek Paudel wrote:
I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple
of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the
proper drivers are installed. i found that the xserver-xorg-video-*
packages are generally missing after the upgrade. please try
installing them, esp the ones for your graphics/video card.
xserver-xorg-video-all should do for most cases.
hope that helps,
bibek
I have checked, and most of the xserver-xorg-video-* files are
installed. Specifically, xserver-xorg-video-all,
xserver-xorg-video-sis, and xserver-xorg-video-vesa are all installed.
How do I instruct xorg to use a specific driver. The current xorg.conf
file makes no mention of the driver to use. I tried adding the line
from my old xorg.conf file, to use the vesa driver, but then I am back
to X simply not loading. Is this information kept in a different
location now? It may well be that if I can get X to use the vesa
driver, as it did before, that these problems, at least, will go away.
Then I can concentrate on others, like my digital camera.
AFAIK, it should still work to put
Driver "vesa"
into the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf; maybe the newer vesa
driver has a problem with your chipset. It might help to look at the
output of
grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)|drivers' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
after starting X in the two different configurations (with and without
trying to enforce using the vesa driver). This should at least give us a
better idea about the reason of the crashes with vesa and which problems
the sis module might have.
This is what I get when I do NOT specify a driver:
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//sis_drv.so
(WW) Configured Mouse: No Device specified, looking for one...
This is what I get when I add 'Driver "vesa"'
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so
(WW) VESA(0): Unable to estimate virtual size
7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so [0xb7b3ba8f]
8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so [0xb7b3c66e]
In any case, whether X loads with the Sis driver and then I exit, or if
X never loads when I try to use the vesa driver, I always get the
following error:
Emulator asked to make a suspect byte access to port 4 (0x0004);
terminating.
This seems like it must be a strong indicator of the problem and must
mean something to someone.
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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro...@yahoo.com
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