Stuck at the login screen

[Homer]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Clay Weber <claydoh at claydoh.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Homer <fsunoles at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 2011/1/10 Homer <fsunoles at gmail.com>:
>> >> Fresh install of Kubuntu 10.04 LTS.
>> >>
>> >> Machine is a microcomputer; an older version of this:
>> >> http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjrmx/index.html
>> >>
>> >> I successfully ran 8.04 on this machine in the past.  10.04 installs
>> >> without a hitch, but I'm stuck at the login screen.  Entering a
>> >> username/password the login process starts, but about 2/3 of the way
>> >> through the screen goes blank, and when it comes back I am again at
>> >> the login in screen.
>> >>
>> >> Result is the same when choosing the failsafe option.
>> >>
>> >
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> At the login screen, select "console login" from one of the button on the
> screen (can't remeber which one). Once there issue the following commands
>
> sudo service kdm stop
> (this is to make sure KDM is not running in for the next step)
>
> then run this:
> startx

The result of these steps is the machine locks up.  It stops at the
point a normal attempt would cycle back to the login screen.  Through
switching terminals during subsequent attempts I was able to see the
messages resulting from the startx command.  Nothing stood out to me.
The final line was: "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X
server."  Is there a way to capture the startx messages?

> What video card does this system have?

The Xorg.log file has some info.  Looks like a VIA chipset CX700/VX700

(II) Module openchrome: vendor="http://openchrome.org/"
	compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 0.2.904
	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) OPENCHROME: Driver for VIA Chrome chipsets: CLE266, KM400/KN400,
	K8M800/K8N800, PM800/PM880/CN400, VM800/P4M800Pro/VN800/CN700,
	K8M890/K8N890, P4M900/VN896/CN896, CX700/VX700, P4M890, VX800/VX820,
	VX855/VX875
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01 at 00:00:0
(!!) VIA Technologies does not support this driver in any way.
(!!) For support, please refer to http://www.openchrome.org/.
(!!) (development build, compiled on Mon Mar 22 20:33:42 2010)
(II) CHROME(0): VIAPreInit
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvgahw.so
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 0.1.0
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) CHROME(0): VIAGetRec
(==) CHROME(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) CHROME(0): RGB weight 888
(==) CHROME(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(--) CHROME(0): Chipset: CX700/VX700
(--) CHROME(0): Chipset revision: 0
(--) CHROME(0): Probed amount of VideoRAM = 65536 kB