Toshiba laptop - unable to start GDM

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Wed Aug 24 22:39:24 UTC 2005


On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:05:54PM +0200, Gabriel Euzet wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have bought a M60-153 and I try to install Ubuntu. I have choosen
>(during install) the correct screen resolution (1440x900) and GDM
>doesn't start (it seems to be such a generic error). So, I have
>installed the fglrx driver (kernel module), "modprobe" it and nothing
>has changed !
>Could you help me ?!

I assume that '/etc/init.d/gdm start' fails with a console dialogue
where you can inspect the messages from X.

Can you provide the output from X?

What about running 'startx' from a console command line?

/M

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