On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Larry Doolittle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
X -retro brings back the whole hash + cursor. Dave. _______________________________________________ [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]
