Well X under debian Sid is all good now. I replaced kernels, unistalled and reinstalled xserver-xfree86 removed dirty nvidia modules, put them back again and tried about 12 permuations of my XF86Config-4 file.
Turns out to be all unecessary (I think) it's just that the new version of XFree means that X takes greatly longer to load. (over a minute on my box) and during that time everything is inactive, suggesting a problem that may not exist. Looking at nvidia advertising screens for that length of time is not my idea of aesthetic pleasure... but it's fine after that (including tuxkart, glsnake, armagetron, and all that good, good stuff.) For me it was equally slow using the nv or vesa drivers. (1280x1024 resolution) 1024x768 is greatly faster. Has anyone else noticed this delay in starting up X? Hope to catch you at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat. Hal Afternoon sluggers, A couple of weeks ago I did an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade on my deb sid installation and X broke. I have silly nvidia closed source drivers. Hmmm... startx shows the nividia splash screen and total freeze of machine in that state. Hard reboot. Chaning /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to use vesa or nv drivers resulted in a similar freeze (minus splash screen). So, first I tried re-installing nvidia badness. No effect. did an apt-get install <latest 2.4 kernel> leaving nvidia out of the picture, still freezes with nv or vesa. Have I done something totally daft? Is something broken in X in sid? Any thoughts welcomed... Hal -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
