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Re: cannot start x - ThinkPad T42
by Carlos Moffat-3
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Hi Joe,
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 09:41 -0600, Josh Battles wrote:
> I've got a T42 (2373JTU) and I'm having problems getting xorg to run. I was
> running debian testing on for about a year and decided to do a fresh install
> of debian unstable the other night.
>
> When I type in the startx command the screen flashes and I get the following
> messages:
>
> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
>
I get this messages too. I think they're harmless
> and
>
> waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
>
I don't get this, but you could remove the 'misc' font section in
xorg.conf and see what happends.
> I've checked the logfile (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) and can't see any warnings,
> errors, or messages that would indicate what sort of problem this is. I even
> attempted to use the previous xorg.conf I'd been running under the testing
> install to no avail.
>
> What am I missing here? A point in the right direction would be greatly
> appreciated. A quick google tells me that there's some other setting I've
> got wrong that's preventing X from starting but I can't think of what it
> could be.
>
> Also, what drivers are you guys using now? Is there a tutorial/faq/wiki for
> using them?
>
> Thanks
What driver are you using? The radeon driver is broken right now in
Debian (and, I think, all distros using Xorg 6.9) so I'm using vesa
instead.
Cheers,
Carlos
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 09:41 -0600, Josh Battles wrote:
> I've got a T42 (2373JTU) and I'm having problems getting xorg to run. I was
> running debian testing on for about a year and decided to do a fresh install
> of debian unstable the other night.
>
> When I type in the startx command the screen flashes and I get the following
> messages:
>
> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
>
I get this messages too. I think they're harmless
> and
>
> waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
>
I don't get this, but you could remove the 'misc' font section in
xorg.conf and see what happends.
> I've checked the logfile (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) and can't see any warnings,
> errors, or messages that would indicate what sort of problem this is. I even
> attempted to use the previous xorg.conf I'd been running under the testing
> install to no avail.
>
> What am I missing here? A point in the right direction would be greatly
> appreciated. A quick google tells me that there's some other setting I've
> got wrong that's preventing X from starting but I can't think of what it
> could be.
>
> Also, what drivers are you guys using now? Is there a tutorial/faq/wiki for
> using them?
>
> Thanks
What driver are you using? The radeon driver is broken right now in
Debian (and, I think, all distros using Xorg 6.9) so I'm using vesa
instead.
Cheers,
Carlos
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