Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen
On 2010-05-08 12:42 +0200, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
> Hello, I have a strange problem.
>
> If X is started from gdm at bootup or with /etc/init.d/gdm start then
> it starts (I know this since it beeps when it is up and running) but
> nothing shows on the screen. The same thing happens when I use startx
> and I have icewm in my .xinitrc. But if I have no .xinitrc file and I
> use startx then Gnome comes up fine.
This is indeed very strange.
> I am using sid and have just made an upgrade to my system (I hadn't
> done a upgrade in quite a while and did an upgrade a few days ago then
> my problems started) so it is up to date.
>
> Any ideas on what could be wrong here?
No, but please show the kernel version, what graphics card you have and
your /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it exists.
Sven
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