[vox-tech] debian woody to sarge upgrade = dead xserver

[Ashleigh Smythe]

Kevin Murakoshi said

>Yeah, just the error message is not much help, you really want to look
>at the lines above it, where it talks about what screens it is using.
>There should be a section above where it talks about what particular
>thing errored.
>
>If you just moved to the 2.6 Kernel then you will need to load some
>mouse modules at boot (I had this problem with X when i switched to
>2.6) you need "mousedev'" and "psmouse".
>
>If you could it would be nice to see the whole XF86Config-4 file and
>the output from /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
>


Sorry I forgot to post what my current kernel is - I'm running 
2.4.18-686.  I'll get my zip drive and be able to post my error log 
and XFConfig-4 file in a couple hours.

Thanks for the input so far.

Ashleigh

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