When gdm starts, I get a black screen which is a tiling of several boot screen images. It's very small. I thought that perhaps this was because of a lacking Modes line, so I went ahead and created an xorg.conf file and then put a line in it. It did change the resolution of the tiled screen, but nothing else happened. I cannot seem to be able to solve this problem, although everything looks right.
I have tried dpkg-reconfigure as well, this seems to have been very quiet. I am running the versions that one would get if YESTERDAY one downloaded the SMALL CD install from Debian and simply blindly loaded it onto the system. Nonetheless, Xorg -version states that it is server 1.7.7, release 2010-05-04 Current OS 2.6.32-5-686 pixman 0.16.4 Xorg.0.log is enormous, over 1GB in size. The following are repeated: (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE stop -9 (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE start -9 (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE idle -9 (EE) R128(0): Idle time out, resetting engine... and then again. The stock 5.0.1 Debian distro worked flawlessly. I don't have any way to get out of this locked-up state; ctrl-alt-+ does not work, there is no ctrl-alt-F1, etc. It would be nice to be able to reenable these, but this looks ilke a driver problem of some sort. The drivers look to be correctly chosen in the xorg.conf file. The generated xorg.conf file with my modes lines looks like: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" FontPath "built-ins" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dri2" Load "dbe" Load "glx" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "record" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" #DisplaySize 380 300 # mm Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "HWP" ModelName "LE1911" HorizSync 24.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 Option "DPMS" Mode "1024x768" "1152x864" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>] #Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>] #Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>] #Option "ForcePCIMode" # [<bool>] #Option "CCEPIOMode" # [<bool>] #Option "CCENoSecurity" # [<bool>] #Option "CCEusecTimeout" # #Option "AGPMode" # #Option "AGPSize" # #Option "RingSize" # #Option "BufferSize" # #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>] #Option "Display" # <str> #Option "PanelWidth" # #Option "PanelHeight" # #Option "ProgramFPRegs" # [<bool>] #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>] #Option "VideoKey" # #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] #Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "r128" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Modes "1024x768" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cannot-get-X-to-start-tp32117979p32117979.html Sent from the Free Desktop - xorg mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com