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.
Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
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....
I would start by running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and choosing the SVGA driver (even if you have an nVidia or ATI or other card that is supported). Then try running "startx". If that doesn't work, try the VGA driver.
Both of these options will give you worse video settings than you want to use, but perhaps they'll be a start to solving the problem.
-- Kent