Mark, Thanks for your email and all your help. Unfortunately, I can't attend the meeting tomorrow. But I will try to see if anyone at the debian site can help.
Robin On 10/2/07, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/2/07, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark, > > > > Thanks for your email. I just logged in as user and ran startx. There > was > > a very brief flash of blue then the screen returned to black with a > message > > indicating that the log file used was /var/log/Xorg.0.log and that the > > config file used was /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Some other lines followed that > > don't seem to be of much interest. Then the last 2 lines indicated that > the > > kernel had disabled IRQ #201 and that "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc > refcount is > > 2, should be 1' fixing'. > > I'm not sure about the IRQ stuff, but the refcount thing shouldn't be > a problem. With xorg logs, the last lines don't mean anything, the > error could be in the first line, it could be in the middle... who > knows. > > Are you going to be at the meeting tomorrow night? If so, make sure > you can SSH into your box, and someone should be able to help you. > I'll be there, but I don't use debian, so I'm not familiar with its > quirks. > > It is very difficult to diagnose a problem like this without seeing > the exact xorg log file and other files (e.g. gdm.log, kdm.log, > xorg.conf, etc.) Also, asking on a debian-specific list may be more > helpful, since it could be a well-known issue to some people... > > -Mark C. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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