Johnny Hughes wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I have a newly built drive with 5.2 fresh install (that I will be >> cloning shortly) in my DECtop and it is failing with X the same way >> the upgrade from 5.1 drive did (not too supprising there). >> >> In 5.1 X worked. I could startx from init 3 and get into GNOME. >> Also VNC into the box and have a GNOME screen. With 5.2, I get a >> kernel panic. Well I guess it is a kernel panic because once I run >> startx from the console, my SSH session to the box from my notebook >> is frozen. > > <snip> > > Try 16bit X instead of 24bit (replace the 24 in xorg w 16) and see if > that helps ... OK. I will try this shortly. > also, you can boot the older kernel from 5.1 and see if that helps. I did try that on the system I upgraded from 5.1. No difference still paniced.