Dell GX110 not loading GDM

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

what version of edubuntu are you using (dapper, feisty, gutsy)?

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Rohan Smith wrote:

> When hooked up to the server all of them boot up the edubuntu
> bootsplash and loads.
> However neither of the GX110s proceed from there... they display a
> cursor in the top left hand screen that just blinks. while the other
> machines display the gdm edubuntu login screen.

I gather you're using the on-board network card for PXE and not adding a
second.  You can see the above problem when a second NIC is put in for PXE
support but the booting system tries to do dhcp on the first NIC.

I recently tried out some (I think) GX110s which worked without special
configuration in feisty.

> [Default]
> X_COLOR_DEPTH = 16
>  XSERVER            = auto
> XDM_SERVER = 192.168.0.254
>        SCREEN_07          = startx
>        SCREEN_02          = shell
> 
> brought up an xserver grey window with a big X which then changed to
> rainbow colors....

I would guess that the XDM_SERVER, SCREEN_07, SCREEN_02 lines are not
relevant.  However, the first two are.  Perhaps try changing X_COLOR_DEPTH
to 15 and 24 and see what happens.

Gavin