Hello, I am running debian sarge on a powerpc and not to long ago I ran
synaptic to update everything,I don'nt know what I did but now I X will
not run after I ran the update I rebooted and now all I get is a black
screen with the text login.
I tried to run startx but it told me that is was
Doesn't really seem to be a powerpc specific problem.
There are gazillions ways to mess up the X starting sequence. And I guess there
is no easy way to get around that.
So just the two basic possibilities you have whenever something goes wrong on a
computer:
1. Start new from scratch, after
As a starting point you might like to try (as root, from the cmd line)
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
This will do a number of things, dpkg will report on the status of your
xwindow installation if it is deficient and you will have the
opportunity to set up the xserver (the defaults for mac
That did not work for me at all.
However since the .deb packages of xorg 6.8.2 dissapeared, 6.9 and 7.0 will
give a black screen of death, so I had to go back to Xfree86 from stable to
get my system up again, I've never been able to start 6.9/7.0
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:44, david wrote:
Jim wrote:
Hello, I am running debian sarge on a powerpc and not to long ago I
ran synaptic to update everything,I don'nt know what I did but now I
X will not run after I ran the update I rebooted and now all I get is
a black screen with the text login.
I tried to run startx but it
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