X troubleshoorint on labtop

[Madison Kelly]

Anthony Alex wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I have a notebook (Thinkpad iseries type 2611) on
> which i had installed Debian, although I ran into some
> minor caveats but overall the system is usable. I have
> Gnome as my desktop. Recently I have installed Suse9
> desktop on the same system in a dual boot scenario.
> 
> The install was complete but evertime I boot up the
> windows portion will halt with no display at all. I
> can however use the console ctrl+f1... in command line
> mode.
> 
> I was hoping to get some pointers to fix the windows
> portion.
> 
> TIA
> MA

Is X working in Debian but not Suse? When you are at the blank screen, 
press <ctrl>+<alt>+<backspace>, that should kill and re-invoke X. Does 
that seem to do anything at all? I've got a Thinkpad A22m running Debian 
and I've had good luck with Debian. I haven't tried Suse yet though.

Madison
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