Last night, I somehow decided to update the Debian Lenny I had been using on my 600 MHz iBook for a few years. It was a mistake.
Only after the update and first boot of Wheezy I remembered having encountered severe problems in getting the X running on this old laptop.
After the update I got a bunch of error messages somehow caused by the Wacom drivers installed by default. After removing the xserver-xorg-input-wacom, I was able to boot the box without endless error messages.
But when I gave the magic word startx on the command prompt, I got black screen instead of the ratpoison window manager. Ouch. Again.
It seems I need to go through this Xorg configuration hell once again in 2012. Or should I just uninstall the whole xorg and live on the console and screen? Or should I finally get rid of this lovely white laptop?
2 comments:
Downgrade your Debian. Keep the laptop :-)
This time, I was able to solve to problem by adding the line
option "NoAccel"
to the section for r128 in /etc/X11/xorg.xonf.
So I can now keep both the latest Debian and the ca. 11 years old laptop in good use :D
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