Bryan,

Yes - I've tried both vesa and no conf file.  None of the kernels work with
vesa and only the 2.6.26 kernel works with no conf.  Should I just try
re-installing???

Scott

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Bryan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Scott Vargovich wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Here's my pastebin:
> >
> > http://pastebin.org/87336
> >
> > I was hoping to not have any issues after upgrading to Squeeze, but
> > that's not the case.  The upgrade went fine after I figured out how to
> > work around the broken packages issue.  I now have 3 kernels -
> > 2.6.26-2-686, 2.6.30-2-686 and 2.6.32-trunk-686.
> I'm using squeeze also and it was a hassle free upgrade.
> >
> > When I initially booted to the 2.6.32 kernel - the xorg.conf.orig was
> > the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  With this one, the 2.6.32 kernel would boot,
> > but when GDM was supposed to put the login screen, it was instead a
> > blank black screen with a bit of backlighting.  In the 2.6.30 kernel,
> > GDM started and then the screen went totally black - like the computer
> > was turned off.  The 2.6.26 kernel worked fine.  The only thing I had to
> > do was put a link in my startup files to start metacity because the
> > window dressings were gone.  It's worked fine ever since.
> >
> > The xorg.conf.config was created by doing 'Xorg -configure' as root.
> > When I used it, none of the kernels worked right.
> >
> > When I renamed both files to what they are in the pastebin and had no
> > xorg.conf file, the same thing happened when the xorg.conf.orig was the
> > xorg.conf file.
> >
> This is a bit confusing, though I looked at your pastebin and it seems
> your system has gained an extra GPU since you were last running Lenny?
> Your second conf shows a dual head setup that Xorg -configure has detect
> for you. Have you tried removing your confs all together and restarting
> GDM?
>
> > I haven't needed to work with X nor GDM for quite a while because the
> > distros I've used has been pretty much plug & play.  I know there's a
> > way to fix this, but my computer specialty doesn't cover this area.  Any
> > help or questions would be promptly answered and greatly appreciated.
> >
> Out of desperation did you try putting vesa in your conf instead of intel?
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Scott
> >
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