Okay, Lee gets the points for being closest to the right answer. Turns out that while apt was updating gnome the laptop logged itself out and killed the process (running in a term window). I had thought at the time that it was all part of the install process. However, I think that it was actually due to the random logout feature inherent in my installation of gnome. I cannot explain why the laptop randomly logs out except to say that it happens after random idle times and sometimes not at all.
So, to fix: dpkg --configure -a (obviously) -> sit down Matthew! Thanks for the tips, I leant just a little, so that should make me an expert and extremely dangerous. Cheers, Michael. >===== Original Message From [email protected] ===== >At 2005-01-10T10:14:20+1300, Michael wrote: >> More info: Debian unstable (obviously). > >It's not that obvious; there are a number of Debian package repositories >you could be using. > >> I have an idea that X can't start my vga driver "savage_drv". After >> killing gdm etc I ran "startx" and it looks like it does not load the >> savage driver. I can only get limited debugging from the terminal >> screen because I can't scroll back up (so I can only see the last 25 >> lines). > >Run it like so (replacing the options with any options you're passing to >startx) and then check the startx.<pid>.log file in your home directory. > >$ startx [...options...] > ~/startx.$$.log 2> &1 > >> insmod /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.o I get "couldn't >> find the kernel version the module was compiled for". > >The files in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers are not kernel drivers. >They're shared objects that provide hardware-specific functionality, and >are stored in a format that X can dynamically load. > >Cheers, >-mjg >-- >Matthew Gregan |/ > /| [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message generated in webmail.
