Bryan, I have no idea why the Xorg -configure generated file detects a double GPU setup. The machine I'm doing this on is a laptop. The xdm and slim managers offer me no help because I can't get to a shell in anything but the working 2.6.26 kernel. I even tried dumping gdm until I realized it would take out gnome-desktop-environment as well. I also purged and reinstalled xserver-xorg like you suggested - no change.
I'll give the rest of the day for other suggestions - and then tomorrow I'm going to wipe and reinstall. I probably should do that anyway because the dist-upgrade to squeeze broke. You now need to use a new script called smxi. I should probably pay more attention to which kernel I'm allowing to be installed as well as what else is going on. Before dist-upgrade broke, I actually had squeeze working. I shouldn't have abandoned it. I guess hindsight is 20/20. Thanks for all the help and suggestions, Scott On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Bryan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Reinstall, phew that is a murder, you can always go that route but where > is the fun in that. > > What happens when you run startx? You have to install xinit to have it > btw. Run startx as root and your user. Install slim or xdm and see if > you have the same issue. I have found a combination of factors like > .xsession/.xinitrc and different display managers make a difference. > apt-get purge xserver-xorg then reinstall it before you go scrapping the > whole install. > > Why does your system see two GPU's? When you ran apt-get dist-upgrade > did you choose to install the latest udev or not? > > > Bryan > > > Scott Vargovich wrote: > > 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] > > <mailto:[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 > > > > > > -- > > > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > > > ------------------------------------------ > > > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > > > ------------------------------------------ > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux > > Users > > > Group. > > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > For more options, visit our group at > > > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > -- > > A healthy diet includes Linux, Linux and more Linux. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux > > Users Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > For more options, visit our group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > > > > > > > -- > > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > > ------------------------------------------ > > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > > ------------------------------------------ > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > A healthy diet includes Linux, Linux and more Linux. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- <>< Scott Vargovich <>< ------------------------------------------ OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E ------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. 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