Toshiba laptop - unable to start GDM
Michael Nowag
nub.wiki at web.de
Wed Aug 24 23:23:38 UTC 2005
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:39:24 +0200, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>
wrote:
> 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
>
there is also a log file : /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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