Dear Ajit,
If all you wanted, was the kernel 2.2.x, there was no need to
get Debian-frozen. You could well have got the relevant Debian
package and done a smooth kernel compile.
Pai
>
> folks-
>
> thanks to the cd's from jaswinder, the upgrade from debian 2.1
> (called "slink") to "potato" (which will soon be called debian 2.2)
> was relatively smooth. (one problem was with libpam0g, but since i
> could deal with it, i think anybody can:))
>
> my major motivation for doing the upgrade was to be able to run X,
> which was not running (save for vanilla vga16) since the intel 810
> graphics chipset on my new motherboard is not supported by kernels
> less than 2.2 (which includes the debian slink distribution).
>
> downloading the intel 810 drivers and installing them also was ok,
> although i needed to compile the module "agpgart.o" for which i
> needed the 2.2.15 source. (heck it's 69 MB! 2.0.36 was only 15MB)
>
> finally, when i made the requisite changes to XF86config file, and
> ran "startx" it didn't work! it said hostname invalid, and then
> socket not found, and then "check if X server is already running"
> blah blah.
>
> so, what do i do now?
>
> tia-
> akr
>
> ps: should i be doing an mknod /dev/agp or something before running X?
>
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