Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 08:56 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such device. > (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" > (II) UnloadModu

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:47 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > These errors (and the warnings above) indicate that you need to load the > > framebuffer driver for nvidia cards, "modprobe nvidiafb". > > Hmm, looks like it's time to really display my ignorance. Is this a > driver in the sense of kern

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 02 2007, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:56 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of > > which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the > > kernel's framebuffer. I (stupidly) failed to save the

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 02 2007, Wackojacko wrote: > > Arlie Stephens wrote: > > >The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of > >which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the > >kernel's framebuffer. > > Have you tried manually editing the file? Comment out the UseFBD

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:56 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of > which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the > kernel's framebuffer. I (stupidly) failed to save the XF86Config file > before starting, but the curren

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:56:27AM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Hi All, HI [...] > > X was running after that first stage of the upgrade (to latest woody) > but would not restart once I rebooted the system. I went ahead and > upgraded to sarge anyway, figuring I might get lucky, and could just

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Wackojacko
Arlie Stephens wrote: The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the kernel's framebuffer. Have you tried manually editing the file? Comment out the UseFBDev option below. There are two other modules not

Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi All, You folks were so helpful with my last problem, I thought I'd impose on your patience once again with the next one downstream. Two nights ago I (finally) upgraded an elderly system from woody to sarge. X stopped working. Moreover, it seems to have stopped working not during the upgrade to