Hi all, I'm having trouble with the graphical interface on an IBM Thinkpad i1161. I was hoping for some help in debugging them.
First off, I had to tinker with xorg.conf to get anything usable. I'm using siliconmotion as the driver at 1024x768. Now that I've got that working, other problems have showed up. xdm will not allow a login. This isn't a password problem. It accepts the password, then starts the process of xetting up X, then pops back to the login screen. I also can't switch back to a text terminal. The screen goes black for any of ctrl-alt-f1-6. alt-f7 brings me back to the xdm login. If I kill xdm with ctrl-alt-bckspc, the screen goes black, and I can do nothing at the console. Same thing if I ssh in to the laptop and run "/etc/init.d/xdm stop". If I kill xdm using the kill command on xdm and X, the xdm login in screen stays displayed on the machine, but the console is still frozen. I can get an xsession using startx. However, when I exit the session, I am back to the frozen black console. The laptop is not frozen. I can ssh in after X has locked the console, but can't get the console back. I've tried sighupping all the getty's Searching on the web I've come across similar problems but with intel graphics hardware, but at least part of the above leads me to think that this is probably a siliconmotion driver problem. Any thoughts? will -- whollyg...@letterboxes.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org