Re: Can't startx

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:30:38PM +0200, Matthias Muench wrote:
> 
> Am 25.05.2006 um 16:59 schrieb Sven Luther:
> 
> >On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:25:34PM +0200, Matthias Muench wrote:
> >>
> >>Am 23.05.2006 um 08:01 schrieb Sven Luther:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:24:16PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
> >>>>Thanks for the response Matthias
> >>>>
> >>>>The Kernel I'm using is 2.4.27-apus. The desktop manger didn't  
> >>>>start
> >>>>automatically and entering gdm doesn't work either. I haven't been
> >>>>able to
> >>>>get a ppp set up, it just freezes so I skipped that, would that be
> >>>>causing
> >>>>problems or is it unrelated and can be set up later? Possibably
> >>>>the modem
> >>>>isn't reconised (it is connected to the standard Amiga serial port
> >>>>though).
> >>>>Otherwise if this isn't affecting the desktop manager I would
> >>>>prefer to get
> >>>>a working desktop first.
> >>>
> >>>Can you post your /var/log/XFree86.0.log please ?
> >>>
> >>>Also, there are 2.6 based kernels for apus, it would be nice if you
> >>>could try
> >>>them out.
> >>
> >>
> >>Where can I get a 2.6er kernel?
> >
> >Debian had a 2.6.14 or even 2.6.15 kernel. Teh 2.6.16 kernel broke  
> >the apus
> >patches, but we are working on this. The 2.6.15 kernel is still in
> >debian/etch.
> 
> Hm, I can only find x86 files on the debian page for etch.

look at :

  http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6

for all files including apus. 


Ah, ... ftp.debian.org has indeed fallen prey to the remove-everything-but-x86
crowd, sucks. Use a full mirror, or otherwise, one of the per-arch mirrors i
have forgotten the syntax for. I do :

$ lftp http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/
cd ok, cwd=/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6
lftp ftp2.fr.debian.org:/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6> ls | grep apus
-rw-r--r--          20k  2006-03-06 13:17 linux-headers-2.6-apus_2.6.15-8_powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r--         426k  2006-03-06 13:17 linux-headers-2.6.15-1-apus_2.6.15-8_powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r--          20k  2006-03-06 13:17 linux-image-2.6-apus_2.6.15-8_powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r--         7.7M  2006-03-06 13:17 linux-image-2.6.15-1-apus_2.6.15-8_powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r--          20k  2006-03-06 13:17 linux-image-apus_2.6.15-8_powerpc.deb

You want :  linux-image-2.6.15-1-apus_2.6.15-8_powerpc.deb

And make sure to file a bug report against linux-2.6, with [powerpc,apus] in
the tittle of the bug.

Friendly,

Sven Luther