Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:03 +0100, Adrian Lester wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:25:29 +0200 > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On some iBooks, the DRI only works with AGP 4x for some reason. Try > > disabling it by not loading the "dri" X server; if that helps, you'll > > have to fi

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-30 Thread Adrian Lester
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:25:29 +0200 Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On some iBooks, the DRI only works with AGP 4x for some reason. Try > disabling it by not loading the "dri" X server; if that helps, you'll > have to fix your AGP setup if you want it. > Sorry to be ignorant but what e

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 13:42 +0100, Adrian Lester wrote: > > Following execution of the startx command the screen goes blank (as > expected), gives a momentary flick of light (as expected) and then reverts to > blankness. > > My network is up and running. I have tried both 'startx' and 'startxf

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 08:48 +0200, SteX wrote: > > My own problem instead is the face that when the session is started and > the system started to launch all the gnome-desktop componets, at a moment > (maybe when launching one of them, which I haven't had the chance to > recognize) > it seemed to

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-29 Thread Adrian Lester
> > So in the XF86Config-4 file I set PCI to 00:10:0 > > lspci gives HEX output... 0x10 is actually decimal 16, so try 00:16:0 :-) Ah. OK then. In that case my problem is that the display dies at some stage during the process of starting X. I get the same result by commenting out the BusID lin

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-29 Thread Ivo Marino
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 09:40, Javier de la Cueva wrote: > El Martes, 29 de Junio de 2004 09:16, Ivo Marino escribió: > > Have you verified local loopback is up? It seems gnome needs a > connected lo. I had that same problem and after configuring lo > everything went fine. > Affirmative, loopbac

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-29 Thread Javier de la Cueva
El Martes, 29 de Junio de 2004 09:16, Ivo Marino escribió: > > I have noticed that my GNOME session (2.6) seems to hang when my > iBook (2001) is not connected to any network. This is quite > strange. As far as I'm most time connected, either via wireless or > ethernet, to a network I had not yet a

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-29 Thread Ivo Marino
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 08:48, SteX wrote: > > [snip] > > My own problem instead is the face that when the session is started and > the system started to launch all the gnome-desktop componets, at a moment > (maybe when launching one of them, which I haven't had the chance to > recognize) > it seem

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-29 Thread SteX
Hi all, the same for me! but what I did was to comment this entry out in the XF86Config-4 file and the startx command seemed to work. >Adrian Lester wrote: >> lspci gives: 00:10:0 VGA Compatible Controller: ATI Technologies >> >> So in the XF86Config-4 file I set PCI to 00:10:0 > >lspci gives

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-28 Thread Sam Halliday
Adrian Lester wrote: > Where the heck's 0:16:0 coming from? Well, it occurred to me that it might > just be the other output so I changed XF86Config-4 accordingly and this time > got no errors in the log files but, after a quick flick of the display and a > gurgle from the HDD, a blank black screen

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-28 Thread Sam Halliday
Adrian Lester wrote: > lspci gives: 00:10:0 VGA Compatible Controller: ATI Technologies > > So in the XF86Config-4 file I set PCI to 00:10:0 lspci gives HEX output... 0x10 is actually decimal 16, so try 00:16:0 :-)

ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-28 Thread Adrian Lester
X does not want to play. I have been fighting this for days and getting nowhere. If anyone can help I would be most grateful. The first thing to mention is that under OSX the machine had been persuaded to do dual head as detailed by: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html . Having bee