Well, I don't know if I can claim to have resolved my problems or not - I guess you'll have to be the judge of that. But the display is back to working normally with the 2.6.5 kernel and I seem to have usb (at least my multi-reader) working as well. So, here's what I've done.
I changed NoS15usbmgr back to S15usbmgr and rebooted the computer into console mode. I issues startx, got a very brief blank screen with "no signal" which quickly gave way to my normally-working gui. I guess that means hotplug is the culprit here (left it commented out as NoS40hotplug in /etc/rcS.d). Trying to find out if there were any conflicts between framebuffer and usb under the 2.6 kernel I googled framebuffer, restricted by usb, restricted by 2.6. That gave me this article http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2003-07/0048.html , which didn't seem all that relevant. However information contained at the end ("load usbcore, uhci-hcd, usb-storage" and "mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb"), I was able to get my multicard reader to show up in usbview. I even formatted a flash disk, and successfully mounted and unmounted one. The display continues to work normally. Guessing that some wierd problems I was having while attempting to toubleshoot all this were related to a line I earlier inserted into /etc/fstab (the line was usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0), I removed that line. So, usb seems now to be working, as is the display. I hate to just kind of thrash around and take wild stabs like this, but it did get me a few steps forward (got usb going) in this case. I'm not quite clear on how to implement usb more coherently (maybe write a script?), but I suppose I'll ask more about that later. Further feedback appreciated. James PS I have yet to uncomment NoS99xdm so that the machine boots straight into the xdm login window like it used to, but am guessing that will work fine, since startx from the command line works now. - 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
