Am Mon, 2003-10-06 um 16.37 schrieb Jon Haugsand: > The Dell C400 is troublesome, in particular with Debian since its > policy of conservative upgrades. Anyway, I have downloaded the > following packages: > > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody1 20030307145421 marcelo@) > kernel-source-2.4.22 > > The kernel recompiled with settings as recommended. However, when > issuing startx, the screens goes black, 30-60 seconds goes by, > suddenly the screen looks X like with the X mouse pointer, but then I > am back to console mode again. Looking into the > /var/log/XFree86.0.log and grepping out (WW), (EE) and Warning, I get > this:
[...] > Any idea of what goes wrong? Or how to debug my situation? There is nothing wrong to see here. Please post the complete log. Or try starting X manually: $ X $ export DISPLAY=:0 $ xterm If you have a working X with a xterm running now, there is probably a problem with your windowmanager (KDE, Gnome?) or Displaymanager (GDM, XDM, KDM etc.) HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice
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