I came from Red Hat and variants in which runlevel 3 doesn't start X from init. So I was, and I know I shouldn't, assuming that Ubuntu/Debian would be the same as far as that goes. I was editing the grub entry before booting to start in runlevel 3 and during the editing I also removed the splash and quiet options. Maybe I'm just getting lucky and one of them is causing the blank screen. The xorg.conf problems were two different issues. I tried installing the NVIDIA driver manually and also had the kernel-restricted-modules package installed which seems to cause a conflict. For some reason the kernel thinks at bootup that it will be loading the 7184 (legacy) NVIDIA driver and when it finds the new 9755 driver it crashes X. This I corrected by removing the restricted-modules package and then it worked, but my resolution wasn't what I wanted. So I manually edited the modes in my xorg.conf file and forgot a set of quotation marks which gave me the second X crash. If I can provide any other details please let me know.
Mike -- X server crash doesn't fall back to console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102719 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
