Dear all,

On my friend's laptop, PCLinuxOS GNOME edition live CD booted perfectly
in to the GNOME desktop. And after logging in, successfully installed it
on the system. But after installing, it is not logging in to the Xserver
/ GUI. The installed system boots well and then the Xserver tries some 2
- 3 times to log in and then comes to the help screen stating that X
cannot log in. Some error messages that come are:

1.  'PCI bus id' not found
2.  '/dev/agpgart' not found
3.  'Video RAM' set too low?

Some rounds of troubleshooting we had:

1.  tried replacing the installed system's xorg.conf with the liveCD's
xorg.conf file.
2.  tried specifying an option of video RAM, when it asked for a
probability of low video RAM.
3.  tried with the 'vesa' driver; default detected was 'intel' driver.
4.  tried removing the 'ACPI' kernel option at boot time.
5.  tried putting in the 'PCI bus' option.
6.  tried changing the default resolution to 16bit 800x600; default in
the other OS is 24bit 1280x1024.
7.  tried disabling the 'translucency' option.
8.  tried disabling the 'DPMS' option.

Well, none of the above worked. What puzzles me is that the hardware is
fully supported, since the liveCD is booting in to the Xserver / GUI
without any issues; still it doesn't log in to Xserver when it is
installed. So what I thought was there would be some script / command
running while the liveCD is booting, whereas it is not enabled in the
installed version.

Does anybody have any clue as to what could be the possible reason for
this?

The laptop configuration is Intel Core 2 Duo processor with integrated
graphics, 2GB RAM etc.

Zaheer M K
GNU/Linux user #351122
Registered at http://counter.li.org

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