Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they could not help with that problem and so did not read the post. Since this is a totally different track to solving my problem I felt a new subject was in

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-25 04:50: I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they could not help with that problem and so did not read the post. Since this is a totally different track to solving my

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/24/2009 12:20 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they could not help with that problem and so did not read the post. Since this is a totally different track to solving

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/24/2009 12:20 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I don't think that I have actually purchased a video card separate from the PC, or motherboard since my TRS-8- Model III died and I bought my first PC compatible. That would have been about 26 years ago. Getting a new board might

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/24/2009 02:58 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/24/2009 12:20 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I don't think that I have actually purchased a video card separate from the PC, or motherboard since my TRS-8- Model III died and I bought my first PC compatible. That would have been

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: IMNSHO, unless this is a *workstation* where you do lots of OpenGL visualization, or you are dual-booting to play Crysis, Linux users just don't *need* uber-video performance. Thus, I go for good-enough-but-silent over raw power which is overkill 99.999% of the time

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:29:56 +1030 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-25 04:50: I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they could not help with that

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/24/2009 05:07 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: IMNSHO, unless this is a *workstation* where you do lots of OpenGL visualization, or you are dual-booting to play Crysis, Linux users just don't *need* uber-video performance. Thus, I go for good-enough-but-silent over raw

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 16:39, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:29:56 +1030 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-25 04:50: I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: I would probably be tempted to buy an nvidia or ati card and dump the sis driver. I don't think that I have actually purchased a video card separate from the PC, or motherboard since my TRS-8- Model III died and I bought my first PC compatible. That would have been about

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
It worked fine in Etch and I really don't want to spend money on a new card if I don't have to. if it was working in etch it's well supported. I have experienced similar problems when changing Xorg versions. Finally I read a bit about the new Xorg config and fixed it myself. The worse

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 20:21:19 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: Maybe this is related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474504 This seems to be exactly the problem that I am having. If this problem has been around since at least April of last year and

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 20:21:19 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: Maybe this is related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474504 This seems to be exactly the problem that I am having. If this problem has been around

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:27:05 +0100 Florian Kulzer florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es wrote: ... You can use the web interface of the BTS to send a follow-up message, I know Florian knows this, but just FTR: this can also be accomplished by simply sending mail to nnn...@bugs.debian.org Celejar --

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 18:59:12 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:37:41 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] I have checked, and most of the xserver-xorg-video-* files are installed. Specifically, xserver-xorg-video-all, xserver-xorg-video-sis,

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: Maybe this is related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474504 This seems to be exactly the problem that I am having. If this problem has been around since at least April of last year and had not been resolved by August, you would think that there

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Bibek Paudel
I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the proper drivers are installed. i found that the xserver-xorg-video-* packages are generally missing after the upgrade. please try installing them, esp the ones

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
Bibek Paudel wrote: I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the proper drivers are installed. i found that the xserver-xorg-video-* packages are generally missing after the upgrade. please try

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Bibek Paudel
I have checked, and most of the xserver-xorg-video-* files are installed. Specifically, xserver-xorg-video-all, xserver-xorg-video-sis, and xserver-xorg-video-vesa are all installed. How do I instruct xorg to use a specific driver. A couple of years back, I remember xorg.conf having lines

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:37:41 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Bibek Paudel wrote: I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the proper drivers are installed. i found that the xserver-xorg-video-*

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:37:41 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Bibek Paudel wrote: I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the proper drivers are installed. i found that

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups that I have been having. My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and an Athlon XP 800+

Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups that I have been having. My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and an Athlon XP 800+ CPU. This is what I have done: changed my

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups that I have been having. My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and an Athlon XP 800+ CPU. This is what I