Re: xorg wont work and wont generate a log

[Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds@gmail.com>]

Dear,
	I have the same problem on two new installed box. I do not know what to do.
	And on an old box which upgraded to 7.3, it crashed a lot, and 
switching to tty just gives a beautiful colored screen....

Thanks.

Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with debian unstable amd64
> installed.
>
> I cannot get x to start, but more worrying than that is that
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log does not exist, and never gets generated.
>
> here are the packages related to X that I have installed:
>
> ,----
> | ii  xserver-xorg 1:7.3+6 
> | ii  xorg 1:7.3+6 
> | ii  xserver-xorg-core  2:1.4-3
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.3+6 the
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:1.2.0~git20070819-4 
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.2.2-3
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.2.3-1 
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.7~git20070706-1
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.7.7.11-1 
> | ii  xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5
> | ii  xbase-clients 1:7.3+6  
> `----
>
> I don't mind fixing X, I have done it before but not having a log file
> makes it impossible for me (or you :-)) to diagnose what the problem
> could be.
>
> I am starting x via gdm but if I use the startx command on tty1 I get:
> ,----
> | giving up.
> | xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): Unable to connect to X server
> | xinit: No such processs (errno 3): Server error.
> `----
>  and again, no log at all of anything in /var/log/
>
> Can someone please help me?