Mike, That's great !
I'm not quite sure why you could see a mouse pointer if your video card wasn't working. Very strange. My experience with ATI and Linux has been very bad. I've got an ATI in this G5 that I'm using and it's been the first ATI card which has worked reliably for me under Linux. I started buying nvidia a while ago. They've got problems too, but fewer than ATI. Maybe now that AMD's got them things will get better. Linux & AMD has always worked well for me. Brian p.s. disable html when you post... Mike> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Mike> Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta Mike> content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" Mike> http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body Mike> bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Brian,<br> <br> I figured it Mike> out. The problem was my ATI 9250 video card. I Mike> went out today and bought a NVidia Geforce 6200 and everything Mike> works fine now.<br> <br> Thanks,<br> <br> Mike<br> <br> <br> Mike> Brian Denheyer wrote: <blockquote Mike> cite="mid:19204.57726.330475.553...@gargle.gargle.howl" Mike> type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Mike, Mike> A mouse pointer is a good thing as it means X is probably Mike> working. Mike> To get a login window you need a "display manager" of some Mike> sort. Mike> Usually its "gdm", but could also be mwm, kdm, and several Mike> others (I think). Mike> Make sure that gdm is installed, e.g. Mike> ii gdm 2.20.10-1 GNOME Display Manager Mike> Your version may not necessarily match mine. jDepending on Mike> your setup you may be running one of the other display Mike> managers. Mike> Try Mike> dpkg --list | grep -i "manager" Mike> and see what shows up. Mike> If there is a display manager installed, then there is some Mike> issue with the start-up scripts. Mike> Brian Mike> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> Mike> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote Mike> type="cite"> <pre wrap="">"Mike" == Mike Allegro <a Mike> class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" Mike> href="mailto:mikeallegr...@gmail.com"><mikeallegr...@gmail.com></a> Mike> writes: </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> Mike> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> Mike> I Mike> just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. Mike> Mike> After the installation I rebooted my computer and Mike> Debian Linux Mike> loaded up, when it goes into the Mike> graphics part I see a blue Mike> screen with a symbol that Mike> reminds me of the hour glass symbol Mike> from Microsoft Mike> Windows. After the symbol disappears it should Mike> go to Mike> the login screen but it does not. It goes to a solid Mike> Mike> white screen where there is nothing but the mouse pointer. I Mike> Mike> am not sure what is going on? Do you have any ideas? Mike> Could Mike> it be a problem with my graphics card? I have Mike> the following Mike> in my computer; Mike> Mike> AMD 1.2 Ghz processor 512 Mb Ram Diamond graphics Mike> card with Mike> ATI 9250 chipset with 128 MB ram 80Gb hard Mike> drive CD Drive CD Mike> Burner Mike> Mike> Any help would be appreciated!!! Mike> Mike> Regards, Mike> Mike> Mike Mike> </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> z<!DOCTYPE html Mike> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> Mike> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" Mike> http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body Mike> bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Brian,<br> <br> I figured it Mike> out. The problem was my ATI 9250 video card. I Mike> went out today and bought a NVidia Geforce 6200 and everything Mike> works fine now.<br> <br> Thanks,<br> <br> Mike<br> <br> <br> Mike> Brian Denheyer wrote: <blockquote Mike> cite="mid:19204.57726.330475.553...@gargle.gargle.howl" Mike> type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Mike, Mike> A mouse pointer is a good thing as it means X is probably Mike> working. Mike> To get a login window you need a "display manager" of some Mike> sort. Mike> Usually its "gdm", but could also be mwm, kdm, and several Mike> others (I think). Mike> Make sure that gdm is installed, e.g. Mike> ii gdm 2.20.10-1 GNOME Display Manager Mike> Your version may not necessarily match mine. jDepending on Mike> your setup you may be running one of the other display Mike> managers. Mike> Try Mike> dpkg --list | grep -i "manager" Mike> and see what shows up. Mike> If there is a display manager installed, then there is some Mike> issue with the start-up scripts. Mike> Brian Mike> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> Mike> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote Mike> type="cite"> <pre wrap="">"Mike" == Mike Allegro <a Mike> class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" Mike> href="mailto:mikeallegr...@gmail.com"><mikeallegr...@gmail.com></a> Mike> writes: </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> Mike> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> Mike> I Mike> just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. Mike> Mike> After the installation I rebooted my computer and Mike> Debian Linux Mike> loaded up, when it goes into the Mike> graphics part I see a blue Mike> screen with a symbol that Mike> reminds me of the hour glass symbol Mike> from Microsoft Mike> Windows. After the symbol disappears it should Mike> go to Mike> the login screen but it does not. It goes to a solid Mike> Mike> white screen where there is nothing but the mouse pointer. I Mike> Mike> am not sure what is going on? Do you have any ideas? Mike> Could Mike> it be a problem with my graphics card? I have Mike> the following Mike> in my computer; Mike> Mike> AMD 1.2 Ghz processor 512 Mb Ram Diamond graphics Mike> card with Mike> ATI 9250 chipset with 128 MB ram 80Gb hard Mike> drive CD Drive CD Mike> Burner Mike> Mike> Any help would be appreciated!!! Mike> Mike> Regards, Mike> Mike> Mike Mike> </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org