On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:24:26 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: > "Stephen Powell" <[email protected].> wrote: >> Please consider a reinstall first. > > Done, using the Squeeze Alpha1 installer CD snagged at 2010-05-27. > Keeping the home partition intact is a helpful capability. > Thanks, but see following. > > The monitor complaining about the undefined video mode > gave no display at all on another machine. The NetVista > now has a working monitor. One problem solved.
My guess is that this problem was solved by a newer driver which got installed with the fresh install. > > X still failed with these being the last lines to the screen. > waiting for X server to shut down ...error setting MTRR (base = 0xf8000000, > size > = 0x09000000, type = 1) Inappropriate ioctl for device (25) > > While blundering yesterday evening I realized that X > works for root! Made a new test account and X works > there also. > > I began removing ~/.* files and retrying startx. The > last two removed were .Xauthority and .xinitrc. > X then worked. X was broken before .xinitrc was added > and .xinitrc now contained only comments. So .Xauthority > appears to have disabled X. I figured it had something to do with one of those .x* files. > > As I understand, hidden configuration files were invented > in the days of teletype machines to make the output of > ls tolerable. Now there are hidden directories with > dozens of hidden files in total. I can't help but wonder > about the wisdom. A hidden file disabling X with no > indication in Xorg.0.log seems bad. To quote chief engineer Montgomery Scott from the movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, "The more they over-tink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." More complexity means more things can go wrong. > > Thanks for the help Stephen, You're welcome. I'm glad you finally got it working. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
