Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:26:02 -0400, shawn wilson wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2011 12:57 PM, "Camaleón" <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:00:31 -0400, jiang lei wrote:
>>
>> > i can not start xserver after my laptop(lenovo T61) was forced to
>> > turn
>> > off while running in multi-head configuration. The laptop runs Debian
>> > Squeeze and i use a LCD as secondary monitor in the office, it always
>> > works perfectly. Yesterday i took the laptop back to home and booted
>> > it as usual(runlevel 5), only to find that pointer flashed on the
>> > screen and dispeared, after that a blinking cursor on the left top of
>> > the screen which can echo the char i input. I switched to tty1 and
>> > generated the xorg.conf using command "Xorg :1 -configure" , the
>> > following is the content of xorg.conf:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> It's still unclear where the problem is...
>>
>> What happens when you go to "init 1" and then run "startx"?
>>
>>
> Not sure this is your issue but most people don't run startx directly.
> It's generally an init script to start the desktop manager (xdm, gdm,
> kdm, etc).
Running "starx" is an easy way to get X errors output directly into
screen ;-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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