On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 03:01, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running Sid, updated to the latest. I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 pro > on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev2 motherboard. I use Xfree86 4.2 with the VESA > driver (couldn't get the radeon support to work properly :( ) in a > resolution of 1280x1024 (max of my LCD monitor). > > Now I have the following problem using gdm: > - when I boot it starts gdm > - gdm starts X > - X comes up but dies after a couple of secs (i can see the grey screen > with the little mouse-cross) > - I see my console for some seconds > - and gdm retries > - repeat above steps 4 times or so untill gdm decides it is no use. > > I know above behaviour, I've seen it when you don't have X properly > installed. The idiocy now is that X _*_is_*_ properly configured! When I > start it using startx it runs perfectly, but -and this might be important- > it takes around 5-10 seconds to load up. It seems to have some > difficulties 'starting up' the video mode in my videocard. Maybe some > timeout counter of gdm?? > > Is it possible that GDM uses some kind of timeout? Like: if X not started > withing 5 secs, give up? I had a look in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf but could not > find anything like it. > > Also, I tried good-old xdm, and this works perfectly. > > So my question is: > - is this a known error in GDM is Sid? > - or is it just mis-config from my side? > > Also another question: has someone been able to run the accelerated Ati > Radeon drivers? HOW??? It is an R250 chip, and uses two PCI ID's. Any > suggestions on running it in accel mode would be great! I also tried Xfree > 4.3 some days ago (did a fresh install since then, so it has nothing to do > with above errors), but it was fairly slow and used a lot of CPU (20-50% > on an AMD XP 2500+). I had the exact same problem. Some how GDM's config got hosed by something.... apt-get remove --purge gdm && apt-get install gdm Fixed it for me and other I know of. I could not find any REAL problem with /etc/X11/gdm.conf (but if I had put a known good config... it may have started. But since gdm.config is extremely simple configure I just reinstalled it after a purge. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry Thine right eye so plitherates that thine left eye doth graze uopn it.
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