Some more info ... I realized that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-mach64 would let me choose the mach64 server. This didn't help. I also tried the vga16 server. That didn't help, either.
Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Jen ----- Original Message ----- From: "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:49 PM Subject: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody) > I just tried to upgrade a Potato installation to Woody. A lot of things went > wrong (details at the end of the message) but the main problem now is that X > doesn't work. At one point in time while doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" the > installer strongly suggested installing xserver-xfree86 instead of using > older xservers (I was using mach64 previously). Then it was unable to > continue. So I typed "apt-get install xserver-xfree86" and was able to > continue until it said that xserver-mach64 was missing. I then typed > "apt-get install xserver-mach64" and was then able to continue with "apt-get > dist-upgrade". > > When it set xserver-xfree86 it asked for a module. I chose ati since that > seemed the most logical to me of the choices offered (there was no option > for mach64). The install of X continued smoothly. Unfortunately, now X won't > load. And I'm not sure how to change the default xserver ... what config > file is this in? > > I'm kind of lost when it comes to X normally, and now I'm even more lost > since things have changed a bit ... > > Thanks! > > Jen > > P.S. The whole story with the upgrade to Woody goes like this ... > > I changed sources.list to point to testing instead of stable. I then did > apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. This took about 10 hours to > download stuff (not sure why it was so slow) and towards the end it timed > out on some packages. But it continued with install after it finished > downloading. It didn't finish, of course, because stuff was missing. It > suggested running "apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing" which I did. This > ended up being a dead-end so I did an "apt-get -f install" and this then > allowed me to do the dist-upgrade again. Then I had to run apt-get -f > install again then was able to do dist-upgrade again. At which point we end > up with the above. > > I also noticed that stuff that was on my system before -- man, less, > samba -- were no longer on the system. I don't know if the installation is > messed up or not; after installing the packages that I noticed were missing > things are behaving normally except for X. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
