[luau] Ruling Expected on Friday
DeanFujioka
surfdean at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Nov 1 08:59:01 PST 2002
Hi All,
When I boot my new install of Woody, I can see boot messages until it loads
gdm, then the screen goes black. At this point I can't press the Numlock key
to get the light to go on/off. I can't change terminals either (Alt+Ctrl+F2),
Alt+F4, etc.
The only way I can get to a login prompt is if I remove the XF86Config-4
file. When I do so, My machine gives me a text login, and asks if I wan to
configure X. I do, and try startx, and then get a black screen again. I have
tried dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 with the same results. I am writing
this email with a working Rhat partition on the same box. I've tried cutting
and pasting the card and monitor device sections and pasting them into the
Woody's XF86Config-4 file from the working Redhat XF86Config-4 file, with the
same black screen of death. I've tried copying the file in whole with no
avail as well.
What's odd is that each time I try to start X, the log file is not updated
from the time I booted without the XF86Config-4 file, so I can't tell where
it's failing.
I have tried settings of 640x480 with 8 bit color, and that doesn't go either.
How can I find out what is causing the "black screen"?
Is there something else I can post to help you help me?
TIA,
dean
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