On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:54 -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:32:43PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: > > > I just installed debian from the cd > > > > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20031201) > > > > After installing, I used tasksel to choose a desktop environment and > > selected linux.csua.berkeley.edu as my mirror. > > > > During install, it downloaded and installed X version > > 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1.. I selected ati as my driver, as I have a radeon > > 7000. > > > > X failed to start with an error that it could not load the radeon kernel > > module and that it could not find the mouse device. > > > > After upgrading the 2.2 kernel from the cd to 2.4.27-10, X started up > > normally. > > > > Is this an error in the dependencies of the X packages? If so, I can file > > it as a bug for you. > > No, just disable DRI and you should be able to run on the 2.2 kernel just > fine.
For the record, failure to load the kernel module doesn't cause an X server startup failure but just the DRI to be disabled anyway. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
