Hi, thanks for your help with apt sources, that is not a problem now. X server does not start at system boot (although it did, twice, before this problem appeared). If I try to launch $startx from the shell it ends up with this error line after a few II and the WW failed to load apm:
XIO fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
I suspect this has something to do with my graphic card. I seem to recall that $lspci should give the PCI buses and the HW on them, it lists my card as well. In dpkg-reconfigure -xserver-xfree86 I listed it on the AGP bus (where it physically is). Is it the case some inconsistencies are in the system about HW configuration and actual status? As usual many thanks for your help. (Thanks to Mark and "quinophex" who respond always so unbelievably quickly.. :D )
Francesco
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:36:25 GMT, "MJ Ray" markj+0111@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk said:
Now I have another problem, X window system does not start up (but it did start once after installation, using xdm) because of some IO error, it says it fails to lad some module, namely APM I think. Any one knows any possible solution?
Wow, that's a strange one. Two possible attacks come to my mind instantly: make sure that APM is enabled in the kernel ("apm=on", without quotes, on the boot line); or purge xserver-xfree86, make sure that discover, mdetect, read-edid etc are installed and reinstall xserver-xfree86, but that's drastic.
If you want more ideas, you'll need to send the X server startup messages (especially errors) and probably the graphics card part of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
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