+++ Julien Cristau [2010-12-05 23:43 +0100]: > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 20:36:10 +0000, Wookey wrote: > > > +++ Julien Cristau [2010-12-05 19:45 +0100]: > > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 04:04:59 +0000, Wookey wrote: > > > > > > > Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 > > > > root=UUID=726cfcad-32c1-4c86-81f7-21b158ae7c00 ro quiet acpi=off > > > > > > I would guess acpi=off is what's breaking it. > > > > Very good guess. I had in fact just worked this out and tried it. It > > is indeed the cause. I guess that is a kernel bug? (Maybe it can't work > > without acpi but it should probably say so rather than just quietly > > fail or give a 'no such device' error.) > > > It's probably not a bug in the kernel driver, lots of stuff depends on > acpi... We'll shortly have the intel X driver bail so X can start on > vesa instead in such cases, which should improve things slightly.
OK - that does indeed sound like it should help. Shouldn't gdm3 have noticed that the X server was repeatedly running for 0.2 seconds and eventually given up trying to restart? It seemed happy to sit there indefinately. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
