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Re: Wish I could see it



El Viernes, 2 de Noviembre de 2007, Daren Beattie escribió:
> Thank you for making this live CD! I was eager to give it a test run and
> see the work that's been done, but when I boot the CD, I run into a problem
> at the point where it starts KDM. There is a bunch of disk activity, but
> the screen goes blank and remains blank indefinitely. Furthermore, the
> system does not accept keyboard input (at least there is no response to
> known commands such as Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+Bksp). 

Well, those combinations didn't work for me either..

> Looking at the xorg.conf (through the SSH connection which gives me good
> CLI access to the system), all appears well--my monitor and display adapter
> were correctly identified and are given appropriate settings. But once X
> tries to start, the display is hosed.
>
> For reference, here's some hardware specs:
> AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.1GHz, 32-bit)
> nVidia n-Force 2 motherboard chipset
> nVidia geForce 6800GS (AGP, 256MB RAM)
> 1GB PC2700 system memory (2x512MB)
> 2 SATA HDDs, 1 ATAPI optical drive, 1 3.5" floppy drive
> Hauppauge TV tuner (not used, but detected by the kernel and drivers are
> automatically loaded at boot time)
> Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
> PS/2 keyboard and mouse

This looks like a Xorg problem, could you send the /var/log/Xorg.0.log and 
the /etc/X11/xorg.conf when kdm is supposedly up?

Thanks.

-- 
     Raúl Sánchez Siles
----->Proud Debian user<-----
Linux registered user #416098

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