Nope... Johnny Hughes wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> 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. > > Did this work. Nope. I first edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and set the screen depth to 16. That did not work. Then I tried system-config-display --reconfig that failed. I added --set-depth=16 --set-videoram=0 and still failed. > >>> 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. > > If it still panics then it does not seem to be a kernel module issue, > but something else. That would be very strange. > > I guess some kind of compile issue in xorg could do this, though not > sure. Am I going to have to build a 5.1 system and see what device driver it is using???