Breezy: X Won't Start

[Sean C Sieger]

Steve Torrefranca <javacide at gmail.com> writes:

> ubuntu forum there is thread that might help you
> *http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=44171*

Thank you, Steve; off I go...

> I was able to fix it by force install, but there are still problems. 
> for example in my thinkpad i can have my gnome run - but in 2 (not 3)
> other machines gnome was running.  but that is okay since i use xfce
> anyways, which  was not also easy to do bec of dep problems that i was
> able to fix eventually by pinning versions to the xfce site.
>
> but surprisingly my old P3 Acer is running okay - Gnome, KDE, window
> maker, xfce unlike the 2 P4 thinkpads and 1 P4 HP (which is a big
> surprise thinking that HP and IBM are supposed to be very linux compat :) )
>
> I dont know, maybe doing fresh install with breezy is easier than
> upgrade - just an opinion since i have never tried downloading breezy iso.

I hope we can discuss this stuff in more detail if I don't find answers
in the forum.
--
Sean