<snip> > > I've the same problem on a Sparc Station 20 with Potato dist > and 2.2.15, > but with 2.2.14 kernel I had the same problem... > <snip>
Ok, following this train of thought I installed and compiled 2.2.14 (couldn't find a deb for it, which sucks cause it takes about 12 hours to compile one on this machine.. hehe). Then I made a mistake editing silo.conf such that I rendered my machine unbootable[1]. After much anguish and stuffing around I managed to fix this and get the 2.2.14 kernel booting and now X works like a charm[2] So, it does seem to be a kernel issue, either with 2.2.15 or with the image that is in the deb package. Is it worth me building my own 2.2.15 kernel to test this? I might just do that anyway. Cheers Michael Anthon [1] It would try to boot the new image, but failed because I think it exceeded the 1G boundary and the error I made meant that it didn't recognise anything past the new image so I couldn't boot the old kernel [2] Well, almost, just discovered that gdm on my Linux server and the display manager on the Solaris server don't like each other, rendering gdm unusable... but that's another story.
