On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, De Leeuw Guy wrote: > Le ven 02/07/2004 à 17:12, Marc Aurele La France a écrit : > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, De Leeuw Guy wrote: > > > I'm new on the list, and newbie with X. > > > But I have a problem on a Bull novascale computer (ia64). > > > I run rh AS2.1, no problems. > > > I install debian-sarge-ia64 and cannot start X. > > > The X server run, without errors but I have a black screen. > > > I cannot use CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, only CTR+ALT+DEL work. > > > I make a ssh connection to kill the startx process. > > > I search from 3 days without succès, any idees are welcome. > > > The linux kernel is the 2.6.7 smp for ia64 > > > Video card : ATI Match 64 Rage XL 16Mb > > Your system is based on Intel's E8870 motherboard chipset, support for which > > has yet to be written. > May thanks for your respons. > But why XFree 4.1 run on RH AS 2.1 and not on XFree 4.3 on debian ? You are running a much newer kernel on the debian system. If you downgrade to, say, 2.4.26, things would likely work again. Note that I am _not_ saying that this is a kernel problem. It's just that, over time, the kernel is becoming smarter about ACPI than the X server can currently handle. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
