New Debian install X problem

[Jamon Camisso]

On 04/14/2010 11:11 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:20:11AM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
>> I had tried without an xorg.conf, which is why I thought adding one
>> might help.  But the response is the same either way.  As for fluxbox
>> vs xterm ...  I didn't try that because I'm almost entirely certain
>> the problem is at a much lower level.  So instead I re-ran the
>> install, but this time I installed "Graphical Desktop Environment"
>> from the packages selection.  The install took much longer, but went
>> fine.  When I rebooted, it came up to GRUB, and when I told it to go
>> boot, it blacked out and became unresponsive - exactly as before.
>> Forced a power off, booted again, this time chose recovery.  Guess
>> what?  The geniuses at Debian have "recovery mode" go into graphical!
>> So the computer goes black and unresponsive.
>
> Recovery mode is normally single user.  It does NOT start X.  It never
> has.  Perhaps the console font setting that is being done is breaking
> the video output.  Or somehow the kernel is loading a framebuffer
> driver which is messing things up (I have noticed fedora now does this
> by default driving some people rather nuts).

Boot using single mode, and try starting X that way. If it fails (sounds 
like it will) you won't get the recovery mode thing, though I can't say 
I've seen it pop up like that on squeeze for me. You should also be able 
to access Xorg.log from your last unsuccessfull session without starting X.

Jamon
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