On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > For the most part, I'm going to wait to think more about this until you > report the result of the telnet test. Also, since your problem does seem to > be specific to X, you should round up the usual suspects here ... > > what kernel? Debian stock or compiled by you?
2.6.5 Sid stock. Not compiled by me - rather apt-get install(ed). > what video hardware (card and monitor)? ATI Radeon 7000 32MB PCI card. Mag 17" "MAG-765" LCD flat screen HorizSync 63.98 VertRefresh 60.02 Modeline "1280x1024." > what X server (I saw a passing reference to radeon in the log > output, but please confirm this)? > am I correct in thinking (from the radeon reference) that you are > using a framebuffer in the kernel? ATI server, I think (it says "driver 'ati'" in XF86Config-4). I'm not real clear on what framebuffers are, so I'm reluctant to say. I think so, but to say for sure I might need more information on determining how to find out. XFree86 4.2.1.1, it looks like. > > Check the timestamp on /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to make sure it hasn't been > changed more recently than you think it should have been. Last modified April 13th - around the time I bought and installed this ATI Radeon video card. > Debian normally is set up to log X's STDERR output to /var/log/XFree86.log > Check there, rather than in /var/log/mesages, for the details of whatever > problems X is finding. > In connection with the usb* installs, did you do an apt-get update/upgrade > (or dist-upgrade) of the system? If yes, is it possible that doing so > changed some of your X settings (by a new xserver-xfree86 package rewriting > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, which would cause you to lose any changes you made > by hand ... that is, outside the debconf method) I apt-get update frequently. But I've never apt-get upgraded this machine since my initial install of Debian Sid > As to usb modules ... since we only care about them if they are running, > use "lsmod" to check that. usb_storage 68288 0 uhci_hcd 33040 0 usbcore 106556 4 usb_storage,uhci_hcd looks relevant. Maybe scsi_mod 121260 3 usb_storage,sd_mod,ide_scsi too? On another note, I see vesafb 5356 1 cfbcopyarea 3872 1 vesafb cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb cfbfillrect 3776 1 vesafb Is this the framebuffer stuff you were asking about? Thanks, James > > >On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > [deleted] > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
