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There is the option in boot for the new kernel in grub2, but as all the writing loads, i see in red text "fail" several times flash past and eventually, it stops at one part with no choice but to reboot.
does anybody know what i've done wrong?
Is the guide an accurate reference?
here's the last few lines:
Quote:
Starting NFS common utilities: statd failed!
Starting acpi_fakekey daemon...done.
Starting portmap daemon....
not registered: 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
not registered: 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
rm: cannot remove '/var/run/portmap.state': Read-only file system
Ok, I've just typed all that from my other computer while that text was displaying on my linux computer, and after ages, it actually moved, failed to load more stuff, and put me at the text login screen.
I don't use Debian myself but from that bit of information I see it seems to me that your file systems are being mounted read only. Try to reboot from CD, mount your hard disk root file system (/) and check the content of /(directory where root is mounted)/etc/fstab. Make sure that all automatically mounted file systems are mounted with read/write mount option.
Yes! thanks, i've just got the 2.6.39 kernel installed through backports, super easy; and best of all, now suspend to ram and the correct resolution work. Just to avoide making another thread, i want to update xorg from backports too. I checked the packages in backports, and there's a package named, xorg 1:7.6+8. I ran the command, Xorg -version and the one running is 1.7.7, so i'm unsure if i'm running a later version or not.
The kernel and xorg were the only packages i wanted. I am running Debian on a pretty new laptop and some things aren't working perfectly; as stated earlier, the kernel upgrade fixed my resolution issues, and as for xorg, that's because when i go to enable desktop effects, (kde) it fails, and says to check my x configuration. I think that this error occures because of the older xorg. Desktop effect work out of the box in other distributions, with no third party drivers.
on another note, how do you know what version of xorg you're using? I read "Xorg -version" but it's results was 1.7.7 not, 7.5 like you say.
You're confusing the core server version with the xorg suite version... which is understandable by the way - it's confusing as hell and I'm not going to pretend to fully understand it either...
I'm running (not relevant - but you asked...)
xserver 1.11.0-1
xorg 7.6+8
If you upgrade to either the xorg or xserver-xorg in backports you will get
xserver 1.10.4-1
xorg 7.6+8
I doubt this will solve your issues with compositing however... forget what other distros do, they mostly come pre-configured - you're running debian.
Oh, thanks, it does sound a bit confusing; well that clears up that mistake.
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I'm running (not relevant - but you asked...)
Ah, i couldn't phrase what i wanted to ask better, when i said "you're", i meant you're in a general term for anyone, not specifically you.
I know that many other distros do some pre-configurations, but even in slackware, which is natorious for doing no pre-configurations, desktop effects works out of the box
I don't have a xorg.conf file, and am unaware of what x configuratoin utility was put inplace to replace it.
my result of lspci |grep -i vga is
I don't have a xorg.conf file, and am unaware of what x configuratoin utility was put inplace to replace it.
my result of lspci |grep -i vga is
There is a simple switch for the composite extension - in stable due to the versions used I'm sure it defaults to off. Slackware uses a 2.6.37 kernel if I recall correctly and probably ships newer packages and differs as to which packages are installed by default.
Your first steps should be to create a basic xorg.conf file containing the following
Hello and thanks again for being so helpful and patient with me, Caravel. Before taking your advice, i decided to upgrade xorg first. Upgrading xorg made it possible for desktop effect to work. Thanks again, if i could i'd give you more positive ratings.
No problem. It's interesting that just upgrading xorg fixed it, but in fact it's probably quite simply due to the newer version of xorg enabling the composite extension by default (i.e. now you have to disable it rather than enable it).
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