Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-22 Thread jiang lei
sorry to reply so late, i was assigned a business trip for 2 weeks, now i am back. ;) actually the entry in the xorg.conf generated by Xorg :1 -configure was nvidia, i changed it to nouveau because i could not startx. i did not mention that in the first mail. Apologies! Now i am installing the

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-22 Thread jiang lei
Here is the result. I installed the nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-glx package, changed the entry from nouveau to nvidia, and run startx again. The nvidia LOGO showed and disappeared, still the black screen is what i get. what else can i do, remove the xorg and install it again? any suggestion?

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-22 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:51 AM, jiang lei john.jiang...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the result. I installed the nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-glx package, changed the entry from nouveau to nvidia, and run startx again. The nvidia LOGO showed and disappeared, still the black screen is what i get.

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jul 2011, Wayne Topa wrote: 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). Oh? I have been using startx for 15 + years now. Please let me know why I should be using xdm, gdm,

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-12 Thread shawn wilson
Ok, didn't mean to run this thread off the rails. Just making sure just using startx wasn't the issue the op was experiencing. On Jul 12, 2011 3:07 AM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 11 Jul 2011, Wayne Topa wrote: Not sure this is your issue but most people don't run startx

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-11 Thread Camaleón
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

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-11 Thread Wayne Topa
On 07/10/2011 01:26 PM, 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

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
--- how can i fix the issue, any idea? thanks in advance. I suggest, not to use the noveau driver. Maybe you should try to use the nvidia-drivers, which are offered in packages. For easy installation, you should use the nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-glx package. Make

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
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.

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-10 Thread shawn wilson
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