Re: Debian Sid startup problems

James Miller
2004-06-12T02:21:22Z

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> For the most part, I'm going to wait to think more about this until you
> report the result of the telnet test. Also, since your problem does seem to
> be specific to X, you should round up the usual suspects here ...
>
> what kernel? Debian stock or compiled by you?

2.6.5 Sid stock. Not compiled by me - rather apt-get install(ed).

> what video hardware (card and monitor)?

ATI Radeon 7000 32MB PCI card. Mag 17" "MAG-765" LCD flat screen
HorizSync 63.98 VertRefresh 60.02 Modeline "1280x1024."

> what X server (I saw a passing reference to radeon in the log
> output, but please confirm this)?
> am I correct in thinking (from the radeon reference) that you are
> using a framebuffer in the kernel?

ATI server, I think (it says "driver 'ati'" in XF86Config-4). I'm not
real clear on what framebuffers are, so I'm reluctant to say. I think so,
but to say for sure I might need more information on determining how to
find out. XFree86 4.2.1.1, it looks like.

>
> Check the timestamp on /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to make sure it hasn't been
> changed more recently than you think it should have been.

Last modified April 13th - around the time I bought and installed this ATI
Radeon video card.

> Debian normally is set up to log X's STDERR output to /var/log/XFree86.log
> Check there, rather than in /var/log/mesages, for the details of whatever
> problems X is finding.

> In connection with the usb* installs, did you do an apt-get update/upgrade
> (or dist-upgrade) of the system? If yes, is it possible that doing so
> changed some of your X settings (by a new xserver-xfree86 package rewriting
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, which would cause you to lose any changes you made
> by hand ... that is, outside the debconf method)

I apt-get update frequently. But I've never apt-get upgraded this machine
since my initial install of Debian Sid

> As to usb modules ... since we only care about them if they are running,
> use "lsmod" to check that.

usb_storage 68288 0
uhci_hcd 33040 0
usbcore 106556 4 usb_storage,uhci_hcd

looks relevant. Maybe scsi_mod 121260 3 usb_storage,sd_mod,ide_scsi too?
On another note, I see

vesafb 5356 1
cfbcopyarea 3872 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3776 1 vesafb

Is this the framebuffer stuff you were asking about?

Thanks, James

>
> >On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> [deleted]
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