On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:40:29PM +0000, Ricardo Campos said:
Oh, it's hard to say where to start on this one....
That's okay.. have a cup of tea. I'm sitting here, dogtired :(
I upgraded from Debian 2.2r3 to testing (woody) and am having the following problems since my apt-get dist-upgrade.
Uh oh.
1st off, it's screwed my keymap, so I cannot seem to find a combination to produce the pipe symobol | (very annoying!)
I can't remember how to do this one, I remember fixing this ages ago when I installed debian on this new machine last year.
2nd, it (rather predictably) screwed my X configuration. It seems that X4.1.0 no longer supports the S3 server. (mine's a S3 trio 64+ to be exact). However, dpkg -l shows that I have two xserver-common packages, one 3.3.6, one 4.1.0. The xserver-s3 package is still version 3.3.6, as is xserver -vga. There may be others, since I cannot dpkg -l | more !
Install either xserver-s3, xserver-s3v or xserver-svga instead. I remember I had that problems on the laptop a while ago. See if that helps.
XF86Config brings no joy- it appears to produce a 3.3.6 style config, and XF86Setup segfaults immediately.
Try running xf86cfg instead in console. I'm sure this should help out....
I'm new to the debian packaging system, so erm... help????
When you installed Debian first time. You are set to 'stable' version of Debian. Unfortunatly, stable softwares are way behind the latest. So the path goes like this:
Stable > Testing > Unstable
As you know already you switched to Testing ;)
To update to the latest packages, do:
$ apt-get update
then
$ apt-get upgrade
(most people do apt-get dist-upgrade, it is sometimes well known to screw up big time..)
My first choice is to fix the console's keymap. Then I probably want to uninstall X completely and grab Xfree86 3.3.6 of my install CD's again, and then resolving the conflicts this will cause is another question entirely....
Try my suggestion above.
HTH