Re: xserver-xorg-video-trident broken for cyberblade/XP

2014-08-28 Thread Beeblebrox
>> Might the problem be acpi related? > May be, try some kernel switches about it. I placed on the linux line of grub.cfg acpi=force lapic=debug to no avail. Do you have any specific suggestions? -- FreeBSD_amd64_11-Current_RadeonKMS -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nab

Re: xserver-xorg-video-trident broken for cyberblade/XP

2014-08-28 Thread Beeblebrox
This problem exists since 4 previous generations of Ubuntu. I just recently switched it to Debian and get the same problem (not surprisingly). Switching to some other version on Debian is not going to help. Might the problem be acpi related? $ dmesg | grep acpi [0.197046] acpiphp: ACPI Hot Pl

xserver-xorg-video-trident broken for cyberblade/XP

2014-08-28 Thread Beeblebrox
I have an old laptop with a Trident Cyberblade/XP video card. tridentfb has been broken for this model card for some time now. # service lightdm stop # modprobe tridentfb (from tty0) Screen goes black then shows stripes with light and dark areas. * I'm only able to get a gui environent by forcing

hd parameters at boot up

1998-08-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
When I boot my system I have to tell the kernel the hard drive parameters. LILO: linux hda=1010,12,55 hdb=683,16,38 I would like to get this set up so I don't have to manually enter this information. I tried setting up my lilo.conf file as follows: boot=/dev/hda delay = 100 root=/dev/hda2 compa

Re: XDM / KDM problem...

1998-08-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
This may be kind of extreme, but I can get out of XWindows (xdm) using the Ctr-Alt-BackSpace sequence that forces a reset. Then, at some critical point during the reset, you can use the LeftAlt-RightArrow sequence to switch to a different tty. Debian 1.3 user >Xwindow... is there a way to "get