Re: Problems starting X in a new Athlon 3800+ system
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've been using the latest unstable with a Pentium III for quite a whille now with no problems at all. I decided to upgrade my h/w to an Athlon 3800+ and I thought I could just install the disks from the old system to the new h/w and work from there. The new system, as I said, is an Athlon 3800+ with an ATI Radeon 9200 (from Sapphire). Everything worked just fine until gdm started up. It looks like X will start, but when the screen blanks it just stays that way and I cannot break X or reboot the system with ctrl-alt-del. My old system was running an ATI 128 Rage Pro, but what I did was boot the new system into single user mode and reconfigured 'xserver-xorg' accepting sensible options. The configuration recognized the card and the monitor, etc. But X just doesn't work. At this point, I decided to reinstall using the Debian 4.0 netinst cd thinking that the reinstallation would default to a useful value, but the re-installation has the same problem with X. Does anyone have any suggestions I might follow to get my system back up? Everything works fine in the text console; it's just X that seems to be having problems. BTW, I've tried running a livecd (centos 4.3) and everything works just fine (gdm starts up, etc.). I'd appreciate any help. Thanks -Jose Isn't there a log file -- something like /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Whenever I screw up an X config or something screws it up for me, I usually can get the answer in that log file. Did my reply not make it? I had replied a couple of days ago saying that I did not find any real errors and posted the log. However, I was able to discover that I needed to install the fglrx-driver package to get the video card to work properly. I found there was a bug in the fglrx-driver package (#420379) that broke the driver so I had to find a way to patch it (as is suggested in the report). X is working fine now, except that before X would do something so that my Acer AL1917 monitor recognized the entire screen size (sort of flash like procedure) and showed the display properly. Now, there doesn't seem to be such a procedure which causes the monitor to not center the display correctly. At least I have X working correctly :-) Thanks. -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems starting X in a new Athlon 3800+ system
Hi. I've been using the latest unstable with a Pentium III for quite a whille now with no problems at all. I decided to upgrade my h/w to an Athlon 3800+ and I thought I could just install the disks from the old system to the new h/w and work from there. The new system, as I said, is an Athlon 3800+ with an ATI Radeon 9200 (from Sapphire). Everything worked just fine until gdm started up. It looks like X will start, but when the screen blanks it just stays that way and I cannot break X or reboot the system with ctrl-alt-del. My old system was running an ATI 128 Rage Pro, but what I did was boot the new system into single user mode and reconfigured 'xserver-xorg' accepting sensible options. The configuration recognized the card and the monitor, etc. But X just doesn't work. At this point, I decided to reinstall using the Debian 4.0 netinst cd thinking that the reinstallation would default to a useful value, but the re-installation has the same problem with X. Does anyone have any suggestions I might follow to get my system back up? Everything works fine in the text console; it's just X that seems to be having problems. BTW, I've tried running a livecd (centos 4.3) and everything works just fine (gdm starts up, etc.). I'd appreciate any help. Thanks -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems starting X in a new Athlon 3800+ system
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've been using the latest unstable with a Pentium III for quite a whille now with no problems at all. I decided to upgrade my h/w to an Athlon 3800+ and I thought I could just install the disks from the old system to the new h/w and work from there. The new system, as I said, is an Athlon 3800+ with an ATI Radeon 9200 (from Sapphire). Everything worked just fine until gdm started up. It looks like X will start, but when the screen blanks it just stays that way and I cannot break X or reboot the system with ctrl-alt-del. My old system was running an ATI 128 Rage Pro, but what I did was boot the new system into single user mode and reconfigured 'xserver-xorg' accepting sensible options. The configuration recognized the card and the monitor, etc. But X just doesn't work. At this point, I decided to reinstall using the Debian 4.0 netinst cd thinking that the reinstallation would default to a useful value, but the re-installation has the same problem with X. Does anyone have any suggestions I might follow to get my system back up? Everything works fine in the text console; it's just X that seems to be having problems. BTW, I've tried running a livecd (centos 4.3) and everything works just fine (gdm starts up, etc.). I'd appreciate any help. Thanks -Jose Isn't there a log file -- something like /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Whenever I screw up an X config or something screws it up for me, I usually can get the answer in that log file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
