Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: I would probably be tempted to buy an nvidia or ati card and dump the sis driver. I don't think that I have actually purchased a video card separate from the PC, or motherboard since my TRS-8- Model III died and I bought my first PC compatible. That would have been about

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
>> > It worked fine in Etch and I really don't want to spend money on a new > card if I don't have to. > if it was working in etch it's well supported. I have experienced similar problems when changing Xorg versions. Finally I read a bit about the new Xorg config and fixed it myself. The wor

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:27:05 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: ... > You can use the web interface of the BTS to send a follow-up message, I know Florian knows this, but just FTR: this can also be accomplished by simply sending mail to nnn...@bugs.debian.org Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remo

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 20:21:19 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: Maybe this is related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474504 This seems to be exactly the problem that I am having. If this problem has been around sin

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 20:21:19 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> Maybe this is related: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474504 >> > This seems to be exactly the problem that I am having. If this problem > has been around since at least April of las

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: Maybe this is related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474504 This seems to be exactly the problem that I am having. If this problem has been around since at least April of last year and had not been resolved by August, you would think that there woul

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 18:59:12 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:37:41 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] >>> I have checked, and most of the xserver-xorg-video-* files are >>> installed. Specifically, xserver-xorg-video-all, >>> xserver-xorg-

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
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 t

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
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-

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Bibek Paudel
> > 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. A couple of years back, I remember xorg.conf having l

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
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 instal

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Bibek Paudel
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 f

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups that I have been having. My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and an Athlon XP 800+ CPU.

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups that I have been having. My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and an Athlon XP 800+ CPU. This is what I have

Re: Can't start X after upgrade

2000-11-26 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 11:08:43AM -0500, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > After upgrading X to 4.0.1-7 yesterday, I get the following when > I try to start X: > > bob:vc-11:bob>startx > > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: . > /etc/X11/X is not executable > giving up.