On 5 Mar 2002, Nick Texidor wrote:
> Ok, I've stuffed my X server, and can't get it running again!! > > When I installed 8.2 and booted into X, the login screen came up but was > not the usual clear window. It had a kind of criss-cross pattern over > it, although you could see the icon's and the two fields for entering > name and password. You couldn't see the drop down for the window > manager until you clicked on it though. > > After logging in I went and ran the config program to change the > resolution to see if that's what was causing the problem... The screen > had been fine for a few days, and then last night I had to restart. The > first odd thing that happened was that the keyboard went nuts... for > example, if I hit the 'e' key, I got a 1 in the field, and hitting 'x' > would give an 'n'. Once I figured the keys out and got into kde, I went > in to the keyboard option in the control center and the Disable Keyboard > Layouts option box was selected. Unselecting it fixed the keyboard > problem. Wondering if it was something I did when I updated the X > configuration, I went back into it, reset all the options for my > powerbook (ATI Rage 128 I think it is), and restarted. I can no longer > get into X, and no matter how many times I run drakxconf or any of the > other config utilities I still get the same error... something to do > with V_BIOS. > > Am I not using the right tool to re-configure X? I'm not sure what to > do now, I don't want to reinstall if I can help it... Has anyone any > ideas of what could be causing the problem? > > What you might be hitting is that the configuration tool, post install does not currentlty have the PPC mod I made in the install to for fbdev for r128, as it seems to be a particularly problematic card. Try adding: Option "UseFBDev" In the "Device" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I'll try to get this into CVS. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
