On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:26:02 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > On Jul 10, 2011 12:57 PM, "Camaleón" <noela...@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).
Running "starx" is an easy way to get X errors output directly into screen ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.11.11.57...@gmail.com