Bug#437200: Installation report

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Stephen Dill wrote:
>> You might want to send the machine's xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>> to this bug so that X maintainers can help you. You can get them by :
>>
>> - when the screen is black, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login at the console
>> - if that doesn't work, boot as single user, then temporarily remove
>> the /etc/rc2.d/S??gdm link so that X doesn't try to start at bootup.
>>   
> Very good Christian, I appreciate it. I have studied through posts
> looking for clues and wondered if I may have an incompatible video
> card. The ATI X800 XT. I can't find my original card that was in this
> Mac to test that though. I must have pitched it unfortunately. I will
> compile the data as you suggested and go from there. It's late for me
> I'm heading for bed. Have a good night

Please just run
    /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg/script 3>&1
(from a VT console after X failed to try) and send us the whole output.
It will gather all we need.

I assume the installer used "ati" as a video driver in your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf. Old ati driver (such as 6.6.3) had a bug in their
detection code. You might want to replace "ati" with "radeon" and see if
it helps.

Brice