I recently updated my xfree from 4.0 to 4.3 (sarge). Suddenly my x
stopped working. I would be grateful if someone could help me decipher
my log file.
My XF86Conf-4 is almost directly created by dpkg-reconfigure. However I removed the part about the generic mouse because I got a complaint that I did not have the device /dev/input/mice (I don't know how to create it... I make a symbolic link, and it get's deleted)
When I write dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 I get an error saying "open_sock() No such device". Afterwards I get errors saying that the configlets ofxserver-common and timezoneconf are bad.
In dmesg I have a lot of messages like the following atkdb.c: Unknown key released (tanslated set 2, code 0x7 on isa0060/serio0) atkbd.c: This is an XFREE86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly
Would it help if I started XFree86 in gdb to create a log?
Thanks in advance
Niels
Well, I think it is a bug. No (EE) and just segfault!? So what I would do is use the Nvidia closed-source driver. I always use it and always have good results. Just download:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_archive.html
and pick 4496 or 4363. The reason I say that is because I am running now with 4620 and I don't see that one.
The only hitch with running their script is that they need your kernel-headers, so install them. It will install nvidia.o into ../kernel/drivers/video so put nvidia into /etc/modules.
Then in your XF86Config-4 change "nv" to "nvidia".
I don't get the kernel-headers because I roll my own kernel, also run the latest Sarge and X-4.3.0
Hugo.
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