[PLUG] X 4.1 problems on Debian

[Nels Tomlinson]

Hi, all,

I've gotten Debian installed, a shiny new kernel compiled (2.4.9) and 
upgraded to the testing distribution. This is a laptop with the neomagic 
chipset, which I _thought_ was supported under X4.1.  I've installed X 
4.1, and run into two problems:

* First, even at runlevel 2 (my current default) it runs xdm and X. I 
fixed that by removing the S99xdm script from /etc/rc2.d (is this a bug? 
should it do that?).

* Second, when I run startx, icewm starts up fine (once I added that to 
my .xsession file), but then it freezes SOLIDLY!  Logging in via ssh 
shows it (X) eating up all the cpu time, and after killing it, a 
kpm-something process remains which I can't kill.

At this point I'm not sure what to try next.  If anyone has an idea 
about what I can try to troubleshoot this, I'd really appreciate hearing 
about it.

By the way, my thanks to the PLUG officers who set up the installfest, 
and to the kind folks who helped me get started with Debian.

Nels