Re: very broken X after recent upgrades Partially Fixed

2009-04-19 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Paul Scott wrote: I had to remove (move to other name) old xorg.conf after upgrade from sarge to etch to lenny. may be it helps ( the new xorg server is much better in finding out what hardware it's running on) regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades Partially Fixed

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 13, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Monday 13 April 2009 03:43:01 Kelly Clowers, vous avez écrit : On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:42, Paul Scott wrote: (snip) I have basic PS2 keyboard and mouse. Is that what evdev is for? I think in the past evdev was usb only (or at

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-13 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 13 April 2009 03:43:01 Kelly Clowers, vous avez écrit : > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:42, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott > >> wrote: > > > > >>> There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database! I

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:42, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott wrote: >>> There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database!  I clearly totally >>> missed some basic changes in Xorg.  I have been looking fo

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott wrote: On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: >> Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you >>>

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you still have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log. [1] You don't r

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: >> Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need >> xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you >> still >> have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log. >> >> [1] You don't really need hal, but it's more work to

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:16 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Apr.09, 23:50:27, Paul Scott wrote: Ok. I'm getting: (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. If no devices bec

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,11.Apr.09, 23:50:27, Paul Scott wrote: > Ok. I'm getting: > > (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. > (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. > (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. > If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable >

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
Ok. I'm getting: (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput. I have the xorg video input drivers th

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 11, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Paul Scott wrote: On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: If # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't work for me, I'd try my luck with # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg I forgot for this thread to say that I'm running squeeze/sid (mostly s

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: If # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't work for me, I'd try my luck with # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg I forgot for this thread to say that I'm running squeeze/sid (mostly sid). I've done that many times with many combinat

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-11 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
If # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't work for me, I'd try my luck with # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg 2009/4/12 Kelly Clowers > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 17:19, Paul Scott wrote: > > I have a completely broken X windows which occurred at the same time as > the > > KDE upgrade. At

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 17:19, Paul Scott wrote: > I have a completely broken X windows which occurred at the same time as the > KDE upgrade.  At the moment I can't get > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to generate an xorg.conf with anything more > than a skeleton in it. > > How can one force the ge

very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Scott
I have a completely broken X windows which occurred at the same time as the KDE upgrade. At the moment I can't get dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to generate an xorg.conf with anything more than a skeleton in it. How can one force the generation of a new xorg.conf? TIA, Paul Scott -- To