Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:42:07PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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?
Just did a aptitude safe-upgrade that pulled in a new version of the
intel driver, no change in behaviour.
Óli
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