Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off
On 07/10/2011 01:26 PM, 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).
>
Oh? I have been using startx for 15 + years now. Please let me know
why I should be using xdm, gdm, kdm?
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