On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 13:12:01 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: > On 6/30/2014 10:43 AM, Brian wrote: > > > >6. Hopefully report success. :) > > > > > Nope, installed lightdm after doing a dist-upgrade and rebooting, still > has the same issue. Starts X, displays a cursor for a couple seconds, > then crashes and repeatedly tries to restart lightdm. > > I'm still wondering if it has something to do with the video card, since > another issue is that when I dist-upgrade and it upgrades GRUB, it tries > to do a graphical boot, but it gets the monitor refresh rate wrong and > can't display the menu. I have to manually set it to a lower resolution > (native is 1280x1024) to get it to work.
Could be hardware, I suppose. Switch to a tty with CTL-ALT-F1. Login as a user and get the video card data from the command 'lspci'. While you are out of X ALT-F2 gives you another console to log in as root and remove lightdm with apt-get purge lightdm Because I like to be tidy I'd now return the machine to a more or less basic configuration apt-get purge fonts* x11-* dbus xfce4* followed by apt-get --purge autoremove Now apt-get install xorg fvwm and, as a user startx How does this go? If ok 'apt-get install xfce4' and 'startx'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/30062014222842.6f7d4dc2a...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk