On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 03:06 +0200, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: > Hi, > > When I install the package xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion and later > reboot my computer the xserver refuses to start. Currently I have this > package uninstalled, although I want to install it but disable the > drivers so it doesn't crash. This to help me understand more about > where the problem lies.(from an educational point of view) >
I think you can not use the siliconmotion driver in the git repo(If the maintainers did not fix the bug of xorg-server), If you really want to use it, this is a how-to document. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heihaier.org%2F %3Fp%3D1031&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8 The original article is in Chinese: http://www.heihaier.org/?p=1031 If you don't want to touch the xorg-server, perhaps you can use xserver-xorg-video-fbdev instead, the performance is not that bad, in reality, I can not get any obvious performance reduce from the sliconmotion one although not test it by an extra tool. > Does anyone have this package installed while xserver doesn't crash or > even provides some form of 2d acceleration enhancement? > I'm using debian 6.0 with the silicon driver and the fixed xorg-server, no crash but not sure whether it provide the 2d acceleration. > Note: Is it ok to post such an issue as this to the dev list? Is it ok > that such a message as this be posted on this list or would it be > better to post it on the gnewsense-users list? It should be okay for you are reporting a bug ;) Regards, Wu Zhangjin _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
