GDM black screen issue.
Hi All, Sorry but I am new to this, this is the issue I encounter, first I manage to install Debian succesfully on an Sun Ultra 5 and I wanted to get the GUI running and installed GDM. After using apt-get to install gdm, and restart, with kernel loading and all, when it comes to GDM, the screen turns black and nothing. I have to power off. Each time I power on, the system would automatically run GDM. Is there a way to stop loading GDM and use the command line to log in instead? Please advice. Thank you. Vincent. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GDM black screen issue.
boot: Linux single Then when in singlemode you can remove gdm and or check if your xserver is configured correctly when gdm starts it starts the Xserver. then the screen becomes grey and thereafter gdm will be displayed. so i think your xserver config is wrong. you can try it by starting X by hand and then if after a few minutes it fails you should look into /var/log/ there are the xserverlogs Regards Daniel Am 30.8.2006 schrieb vincent young [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, Sorry but I am new to this, this is the issue I encounter, first I manage to install Debian succesfully on an Sun Ultra 5 and I wanted to get the GUI running and installed GDM. After using apt-get to install gdm, and restart, with kernel loading and all, when it comes to GDM, the screen turns black and nothing. I have to power off. Each time I power on, the system would automatically run GDM. Is there a way to stop loading GDM and use the command line to log in instead? Please advice. Thank you. Vincent. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GDM black screen issue.
vincent young wrote: Sorry but I am new to this, this is the issue I encounter, first I manage to install Debian succesfully on an Sun Ultra 5 and I wanted to get the GUI running and installed GDM. After using apt-get to install gdm, and restart, with kernel loading and all, when it comes to GDM, the screen turns black and nothing. I have to power off. Each time I power on, the system would automatically run GDM. Is there a way to stop loading GDM and use the command line to log in instead? When the screen is black, try pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 to move to the first text-based virtual terminal. If that doesn't work, try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to see if that will kill X (although it's likely to start back up again automatically, so this probably won't do you much good). Or you can start Debian in single-user mode. At the lilo/grub prompt, entering linux single should do the trick. Once logged in as root, you can deactivate GDM in a number of ways; if you don't want it all you can remove it (aptitude remove gdm); my personal preference is to put the single line exit 0 as the first non-comment line in /etc/init.d/gdm. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GDM black screen issue.
Kent West wrote: Or you can start Debian in single-user mode. At the lilo/grub prompt, Oops, Sparc list; I reckon that'd be silo prompt, if I can remember properly that far back. (I've never bothered to unsubscribe from this list, even though I haven't had any Sparcs for several years now.) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
