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Re: Advice for troubleshooting X (total screen loss) -- Newb Alert



El vie, 27-06-2008 a las 16:31 -0400, Jeff Soules escribió:
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> Kent West wrote:
>         I would start by changing the nvidia driver to the nv driver
>         in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> Mumia W. wrote:
>         Re-do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and select the "vesa"
>         driver--just to check if the nvidia driver is the source of
>         the problem.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions.
> 
> I have retried using both of the generic drivers.  Now I'm getting a
> fatal server error -- no screens found.
> Still not working, but at least it's enough to start me on further
> research.
> 
> I attempted lowering the resolution to see if that would let it detect
> the monitor (and also tried disabling glx) but neither resolved the
> problem; moreover, when I set x to autodetect the monitor, the screen
> goes black again with no signal to monitor and I'm forced to do a hard
> reboot by hitting the box's reset button.
> 
> The monitor in question is an Acer 22" lcd, if anyone out there has
> any experience with these.
> 

Can you post your xorg.conf and the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log?


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