Re: Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread ja123 huang
The problem is intermittent. How often have you been booting up your system since you 'fixed' the problem?

Re: Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Daniel Trebbien
> I have been seeing problem with X not starting properly without using> startx. you may want to give that a try.> also you may want to check the /var/log directory for Xorg.log and> gdm.log (?).Running `sudo startx` appears to have the same effect as when `gdm` is starting;  I see a black scre

Re: Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Daniel Trebbien
> What version of gdm is this?2.20.10-1

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread briand
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:47:57 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Daniel Trebbien wrote: > > I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409, running Debian > > testing (Squeeze). This morning when I started my laptop, the > > computer booted and I was able to use my GNOME desktop as usual. > > Thi

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Trebbien wrote: I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409, running Debian testing (Squeeze). This morning when I started my laptop, the computer booted and I was able to use my GNOME desktop as usual. This afternoon, however, when I started my laptop, the screen went "black" a s

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 04:52:50AM -0700, Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:16:20PM +0800, ja123 huang wrote: > > Yep, I have the same problem. It is intermittent. Sieving through dmesg, > > syslog and kdm.log, the culprit is DRM error. Web search shows it has to do > > with loading seque

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:16:20PM +0800, ja123 huang wrote: > Yep, I have the same problem. It is intermittent. Sieving through dmesg, > syslog and kdm.log, the culprit is DRM error. Web search shows it has to do > with loading sequence of DRM w.r.t to agpgart. It was supposed to have been > fixed

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread ja123 huang
Yep, I have the same problem. It is intermittent. Sieving through dmesg, syslog and kdm.log, the culprit is DRM error. Web search shows it has to do with loading sequence of DRM w.r.t to agpgart. It was supposed to have been fixed in 2.6.31. I would like to know the solution to this. huangja123

After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-03 Thread Daniel Trebbien
I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409, running Debian testing (Squeeze). This morning when I started my laptop, the computer booted and I was able to use my GNOME desktop as usual. This afternoon, however, when I started my laptop, the screen went "black" a short moment after I saw: