Sascha Beaumont wrote:
Leif Keane wrote:For some reason, I didn't receive the first post in this thread, so I may be off topic a bit. However, as all distro's seem to be going this way, it may be a good idea to point out that Xfree86 is being dropped in favour of xorg. Apart from the initial poor quality drop, the first patch seems fine ( unless you use nvidia under Fedora Core 2 - the latest drop of drivers from nvidia worked for 30 hours before failing! ): I'm trying a new card to see if that fixes it... dual head nvidia instead </sanity> )
debconf: DbDriver “configdb” error: /var/cache/dbconf/config.dat is locked by another process base-config: 80poff exited with return code 1 debconf: DbDriver “configdb” error: /var/cache/dbconf/config.dat is locked by another process base-config: 90final-message exited with return code 1
and went back to the command line.
any ideas?
Here's a couple.. (as root of course)
You can hope that autoconfig will work..... # X -configure To test.... # X -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new If that works and you get a black and white screen with the X pointer kill X with "Ctrl-Alt-Backspace" and then # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.old # cp /root/XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Or send yourself back through the same config options you got on install.. the autoconfig from above won't include the "hints" to dpkg so you might want to overwrite any custom X config with the backup from above. Try the "vesa" server if you have no idea what you should be selecting. # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
This same problem hit me first time I started to use Debian and didn't know how to get back to certain config screens. The "vesa" server is a pretty much failsafe default that is going to work with almost any modern video card.
Sascha
To convert your config, you just need to copy XF86Config(-4) to xorg.conf. The single modification required is to sort out the keyboard definition... you'll have a definition block similar to that below, hich needs the xfree definition changing to xorg as it has been done here:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
EndSectionSteve
