[H-GEN] oops - debian unstable woes

[Sandra Milne]

Fiance installed debian last night. Got it all working exactly as he wanted 
it, but for zangband which wants gcc3.2 to compile. So, because gcc3.2 is 
in unstable, he did a dist-upgrade. X-Windows has not worked since. He just 
gets a black screen and the monitor switches to stand-by -- no signal.

We got into single user mode and removed gdm and kdm from startup, so that 
he can boot to a console. That's all fine and good, it boots ok. We had 
suspected a problem with gdm/kdm but when launching startx from the console 
the same thing happens.

Nvidia GeForce 2MX400 using the Geforce driver for xfree86 v4. (I think 
this is nv). The thing is, it worked fine until X was restarted after the 
upgrade. We re-ran xf86config and set it all up again, but still no joy.

Has anyone experienced this? Brendan doesn't want to go through and setup 
debian all over again now that he's got all his settings just how he likes 
them. Is there an easy way to roll-back to stable? Or is this a known issue 
that will be resolved in a couple of days and he can just sit tight and 
wait for the update?

Help is much appreciated by both of us (he removed all M$ products from his 
machine last night so he's missing the gui a bit, but is currently sitting 
in console playing angband so I doubt insanity is imminent.)

Sandra.

silne at optusnet.com.au
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