Hi, I've found the reason for the crash of the X-server. The R128 xserver depends on the firmware for the Rage128 graphics card. Lenny installed this special firmware, Squeeze didn't do so. I don't know who is responsible for loading the firmware, but the xserver should test whether the graphics card meets all the requirements and should switch back to a safe mode if something is wrong.
Manually installing "firmware-linux-nonfree" (recovery-console w. USB-Stick) solved the problem, Squeeze is now operational. Looking into the packet, I suppose that there are many other cards which may cause similar problems. So there must be a way to a running system and to inform the user, that he needs to install packages that are not included on the installation-DVD or available in the currently configures sources. I believe it's the job of the Xorg-Team to ensure a running system even with missing firmware (fbdev, VESA), but the Installer-Team should also find a way to enable the user to get all the required packages for his system during the installation process. -- Best regards Wolf-Dieter Groll GnuPG-Key-Id: 0x1A5BA608 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d5d8c27.3030...@gmx.de
