On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 06:09:43AM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote: > The motherboard is a Biostar TA790GX XE, conveniently listed > at Newegg as item N82E16813138140. The monitor (LCD panel) > worked recently at 2048x1152 driven with a 10-year-old Matrox > and the same VGA cable. It's a Samsung model 2343BWX. > > I have started downloading the files to install the i686 version > of Debian Squeeze, instead of the amd64 version, just in case > I have run into a word-length bug. I should have a chance to > try that this weekend.
It was a long and winding path, but I think there's a short answer: someone disabled the traditional herringbone start pattern for the X server, so all my tests just starting X (no clients) gave a black screen -- not even the stylized "X" cursor I have known for literally 17 years. How am I supposed to know the server is running? When I finally ssh in and "DISPLAY=:0 xclock -geom +100+100", I see the server works fine. Install a few clients, and the system works fine! Well, still some rough edges, but I'll have to deal with those another day. Unless someone can explain why X no longer starts with a herringbone, or show how to re-enable it, I consider this thread closed. Sorry for the noise -- trust me, I went through many hours of effort before discovering the (lack of) problem. - Larry _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
