From: jbthiel@ogicse.ogi.edu (John B. Thiel) Subject: Re: Help! 0.98.3 has stopped X11 working. Date: 29 Oct 1992 20:21:26 GMT
In article <1992Oct29.091229.17751@athena.mit.edu> ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk writes:
>I've been running X11 2.1, latest version, for some time under 0.98.1
>without any problems; this is using X386mono with standard VGA, so it's
>not too demanding. Yesterday I patched up to 0.98.3 (from a virgin
>0.98.1, so there shouldn't be any problems there), rebuilt the kernel
>and rebooted. Most everything works just fine, no problems at all in
>fact...except that X refuses to start now. After running 'startx', I
>get the normal messages about clocks and modes, the screen goes blank
>as normal, a second or two of disk activity, then nothing. Ctrl-Alt-BS
>won't get me out, but Linux is still running, because sometimes the
>disk will sync after a while. The only way to get out is to
>soft-reboot.
>
>This has me mystified. I can reboot 0.98.1 and X runs fine, so the
>files aren't corrupted. fsck reports no problems. I've tried running as
>root; still won't work. I've tried capturing messages from X386mono
>into a file, but that doesn't help. Does anybody have any ideas about
>what might have changed between pl1 and pl3 that would stop X working?
>Am I the only one having these problems? (-sob-)
>
Confirmation: I, too, have a reliable X setup under 0.97p2 and p6
that mysteriously fails under a freshly compiled 0.98.3 Image in
exactly the way above described.
386/40, 387, ET4000, 1542 Scsi.
Other 0.98.3 concerns:
I have 4 serial ports, set up with the standard ports and
using IRQ's 4,3,5,2. The kernel initialization reports
finding the last at irq 9, and also finds a spurious port
ttys12 at 0x330 irq 11.
I am fairly sure that I have disabled the interrupt from the VGA card.
Could the ttys12 be the 1542? This seems potentially dangerous.
I also made a first attempt at activating tcp, but was stymied
when the only binaries I could find for inetd, named, etc.
were old versions requiring the libc.2.2.2. Are newer versions
available?
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