jaalburquerque@cox.net wrote:
Hi. I've been using the latest unstable with a Pentium III for quite
a whille now with no problems at all. I decided to upgrade my h/w to
an Athlon 3800+ and I thought I could just install the disks from the
old system to the new h/w and work from there.
The new system, as I said, is an Athlon 3800+ with an ATI Radeon 9200
(from Sapphire). Everything worked just fine until gdm started up.
It looks like X will start, but when the screen blanks it just stays
that way and I cannot break X or reboot the system with ctrl-alt-del.
My old system was running an ATI 128 Rage Pro, but what I did was
boot the new system into single user mode and reconfigured
'xserver-xorg' accepting sensible options. The configuration
recognized the card and the monitor, etc. But X just doesn't work.
At this point, I decided to reinstall using the Debian 4.0 netinst cd
thinking that the reinstallation would default to a useful value, but
the re-installation has the same problem with X. Does anyone have
any suggestions I might follow to get my system back up? Everything
works fine in the text console; it's just X that seems to be having
problems. BTW, I've tried running a livecd (centos 4.3) and
everything works just fine (gdm starts up, etc.). I'd appreciate
any help. Thanks
-Jose
Isn't there a log file -- something like /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Whenever
I screw up an X config or something screws it up for me, I usually can
get the answer in that log file.