Re: Annoying problem (Debian Woody)

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Sam, 2002-03-30 at 20:31, M=A7K wrote:

> I finally installed everything, but after booting the system does a sort =
of
> screen cycling which makes the whole thing quite unusable.
> I first thought it was a problem with the blanker, but then realized ther=
e
> actually are 3 screens that get cycled (the main one and two black ones).
> This happens both with 2.4.13 and 2.4.9 (2.2.10 does not boot a full
> installed sys).
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> distro:
>     Debian Woody 3.0 PPC (6 CDs)
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> this is the bootstrap line:
>     bootstrap --apus -k vmlinuz-2.4.13-apus root=3D/dev/hda3 nobats
> video=3Dpm2fb:mode:800x600-60 video=3Damifb:vga video=3Dmap:0 debug
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> during debian setup I set XF to use fb driver (if it somehow matters)
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> my config:
>     A1200 BPPC603e+@200MHz/040@25MHz BVision PPC
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> notes:
>     last task launched before it starts screen cycling is gdm
>     I am in runlevel 2

X probably isn't configured correctly. Boot into single user mode (add
'single' to the bootstrap line) and remove gdm until X runs (just run
'X' directly to test).


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast