Re: Cannot run X on a ia64

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Le ven 02/07/2004 à 20:43, Marc Aurele La France a écrit :
> 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.
Yes, but I upgrade the kernel just for trying another way for this
problem.
The orginal kernel, I think that the 2.4.24
> 
> 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.
> 
Ok, are you know eventually an option(s) that can I try with this kernel
?

Many thanks for your attention
Guy
> Marc.
> 
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