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-video-sis, and xserver-xorg-video-vesa are all >>> installed. How do I instruct xorg to use a specific driver. The >>> current xorg.conf file makes no mention of the driver to use. I >>> tried adding the line from my old xorg.conf file, to use the vesa >>> driver, but then I am back to X simply not loading. Is this >>> information kept in a different location now? It may well be that >>> if I can get X to use the vesa driver, as it did before, that these >>> problems, at least, will go away. Then I can concentrate on others, >>> like my digital camera. >>> >> >> AFAIK, it should still work to put >> >> Driver "vesa" >> >> into the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf; maybe the newer vesa >> driver has a problem with your chipset. It might help to look at the >> output of >> >> grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)|drivers' /var/log/Xorg.0.log >> >> after starting X in the two different configurations (with and without >> trying to enforce using the vesa driver). This should at least give us a >> better idea about the reason of the crashes with vesa and which problems >> the sis module might have. >> >> > This is what I get when I do NOT specify a driver: > > (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. > (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//sis_drv.so > (WW) Configured Mouse: No Device specified, looking for one... Nothing unusual here and nothing that helps us. You could try some of the options mentioned in "man sis", e.g. Option "DRI" "false"; maybe one of them will restore your ability to switch VTs. The only other thing that I can think of is trying to catch the crash upon VT switch with a debugger as described here http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging and submitting the backtrace to the BTS. You should also have a look at the Xorg bugtracker; you seem to have run into a regression of the driver, which might be known already. There does not seem to be a -dbg package available for the sis driver, though. The slightly newer package from experimental might be worth a try, too. > This is what I get when I add 'Driver "vesa"' > > (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. > (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so > (WW) VESA(0): Unable to estimate virtual size > 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so [0xb7b3ba8f] > 8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so [0xb7b3c66e] Not sure what to make of this; unfortunately, the vesa package does not seem to have debugging symbols either. > In any case, whether X loads with the Sis driver and then I exit, or if > X never loads when I try to use the vesa driver, I always get the > following error: > > Emulator asked to make a suspect byte access to port 4 (0x0004); > terminating. Maybe this is related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474504 -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
