On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:15:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah. I've been trying to set up X on my ASUS A8N-VM-UAYGZ system. > Its on-board graphics chip is, I believe, an GFORCE4 6300. This > machine is successfully in production use as an NFS server, serving an > 80G reiser filesystem on LVM on RAID-1 to several other machines on the > LAN. > > I'm using AMD64 etch with Len Sorenson's -12 kernel, and csail at MIT is > my package repository. I've managed to compile and install the > so-called nvidia-kernel, but nvidia is not one of the options I get when > running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. > > Selecting nv gets nowhere; when I boot, X tries to start > up and fails, finding no screens. But more than that, when it starts > and fails on boot, the NFS server doesn't seem to work. > remote-mounting the big partition on another machine times out. > > Of the options I've tried, only vga works at all. X still doesn't > start (apparently I've specified 24-bit graphics and VGA doesn't like > it), but at least the NFS server comes up properly, and my remote users > are happy. > > Is this a known problem? > > Actually, I'm not completely certain whether it was nv or vesa (or > both) I was using when the NFS server failed to operate -- I'd have to > try it again to be sure, but it's getting late and my users are > complaining about yet another shutdown. I will test it again and give > more complete details, probably tomorrow. > > In the meantime, if someone could tell me just what data to gather to > help in diagnosis, I'd appreciate it. > > -- hendrik >
There are two issues here. One, which I expect will be fixed by time, effort, routine upgrades, very much appreciated advice from this list, and a lot of my virtual elbow grease, is tht I'm having touble getting X up. Th other, which I think is more serious, although it will probably affect me less, is that when C fails to start up properly at boot, it appears to disable the NFS server. That seems to suggest * a serious lack of compartmentalisation in the kernel. * X's failure to behave properly when failing to start up. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]