HELP Xserver cannot start

Larry H Killian larry at killianonline.net
Fri Sep 16 15:42:32 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 16:52 +0200, Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) wrote:

> alves5 at cantv.net wrote:
> > Now when I boot it shows a blue (!) screen with a gray box that says: "I 
> > cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). [...] Would you 
> > like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem?"
> > No matter what I answer, it freezes there.
> > 
> Do you use the nvidia graphics driver (this one from nvidid) and did a 
> security update lately?
> 
> I had excatly the same problem and solved it with reinstalling the 
> nvidia graphics driver.
> 
> Regards, Thomas
> 
> 
> -- 
> http://www.kaiser-linux.li
> 


I do not have nvidia graphics but did have this problem when doing a
minimal install and letting Ubuntu grab what it needed off of the net. I
finally gave up and reinstalled using one of the free Ubuntu cds that
they will send you.

Voila! Not a single problem so far.

This is on an Averatec 3250 notebook with S3/Unichrome graphics.


Larry H Killian
larry at killianonline.net

"Peace when possible. War when necessary."
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