Ah, thank you. This fixed it perfectly. I also found a longer description of the problem here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=541630
industrial-ghetto wrote: > > I'm unsure of which firmware packages to install. I did the net install > and it went rather quickly. What firmware packages should I install? > > Thanks! > > -John > > > > Alex Deucher wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:51 PM, industrial-ghetto <r400...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> Make sure you'e installed the firmware packages. >> >> Alex >> _______________________________________________ >> 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: li...@nabble.com >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cannot-get-X-to-start-tp32117979p32119178.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