Post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. There might be something subtle in there.
Shawn Richard Carter wrote: > Mark, > > Thanks for your email and all your help. Unfortunately, I can't attend > the meeting tomorrow. But I will try to see if anyone at the debian > site can help. > > Robin > > On 10/2/07, *Mark Carlson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On 10/2/07, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Mark, > > > > Thanks for your email. I just logged in as user and ran > startx. There was > > a very brief flash of blue then the screen returned to black with > a message > > indicating that the log file used was /var/log/Xorg.0.log and > that the > > config file used was /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Some other lines > followed that > > don't seem to be of much interest. Then the last 2 lines > indicated that the > > kernel had disabled IRQ #201 and that "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc > refcount is > > 2, should be 1' fixing'. > > I'm not sure about the IRQ stuff, but the refcount thing shouldn't be > a problem. With xorg logs, the last lines don't mean anything, the > error could be in the first line, it could be in the middle... who > knows. > > Are you going to be at the meeting tomorrow night? If so, make sure > you can SSH into your box, and someone should be able to help you. > I'll be there, but I don't use debian, so I'm not familiar with its > quirks. > > It is very difficult to diagnose a problem like this without seeing > the exact xorg log file and other files (e.g. gdm.log , kdm.log, > xorg.conf, etc.) Also, asking on a debian-specific list may be more > helpful, since it could be a well-known issue to some people... > > -Mark C. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines ( http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
