On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 09:22:24AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Sridhar M.A. <[email protected]> (12/02/2011): > > Since yesterday morning, X does not start on my Acer laptop which > > has an intel card (laptop is acer 5745). I tried installing the > > xserver packages from unstable with the same result. Rolled back to > > testing and X still does not start. I removed /etc/X11/xorg.conf and > > tried without success. > > I might be lacking coffee, but the log looks fine. How do you start X? > Through GDM/KDM/something? What is the last known working situation? > Before you upgraded yesterday morning? What else did you upgrade? > Sorry for sending the message multiple times. The mailer log kept showed that the mail was rejected and hence I tried a couple of times. :-(
Coming back to the problem, I now found some workarounds and starnge
behaviour (to me).
As mentioned, X would not start. Disabled gdm3 and tried from startx.
No success. Not only that, I cannot use the machine, as keyboard is also
locked up. But, I can ssh into it. Removed gdm3 and tried startx. X
works! Gnome is working fine.
But, many a time I use openbox. So, set it in ~/.xinitrc and tried
startx. X carshed with the following error in ~/.xsession-errors :
How are you gentlemen all your base OS belong to us ....
(Maybe not the exact wording, but to that effect; I am sending this from
my desktop).
Installed gdm. X comes up without any problem. Again, gnome works fine,
openbox as before crashes.
Right now, gdm+gnome works for me. gdm3 does not even allow X to start
:-(
Regards,
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