On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:12:10PM +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Morning all. > > I've got quite an intermittent problem with my laptop: > When I boot, sometimes it gets as far as starting GDM, and then the > screen goes blank as per the usual change from a text display to a > graphical one, but the grahical one doesn't appear - I'm left with a > blank screen that is definitely powered up. > ctrl-alt-F* doesn't get me anything viewable. It's not yet happened on > enough of a network for me to know whether the network's still up or see > if I can ssh in. > In general, powering it off then rebooting gets it working. It does work > more times than not, but I'm not sure of the ratio. Somewhere a bit > better than half successful, I'd imagine. I had the same problem and I liked it very much. Since it worked just after rebooting circa five times, I guessed, that it has to get something warm before and someone adviced me to put it in the baking oven. After I had fixed it, the curser was a square with circa 2x2 cm, which changed the behaviour from being striped to white, black and partially or fully inverting the colours being behind it. As I said, I liked it very much. But now to the problem: As far as I remember, I wrote in my graphics settings, that the card has to get a fixed size of RAM instead of doing that automatically. In addition I changed the driver from "savage" to "vesa" to get rid of the fancy cursor. > It's an IBM Thinkpad T21, with a Savage graphics chipset. I'm running > Debian 4 fully updated. > The xorg log is at: > http://aviswebsite.co.uk/moses211108.xorg.log > And doesn't seem to contain any errors, but I don't really know what to > look for beyond EE and WW. > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! Have a nice time with your graphics and don't throw it away! Professor Corcoran would be happy of it. With the best wishes Richard -- Richard Möhn, Laußnitz in Sachsen Public Key-ID: 4385C7FB Fingerprint: D74B F0D6 52BD C802 F5E2 B5BF 78AB 5563 4385 C7FB
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