xorg logging / turning off bulletproof x?

[Matt Price]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 12:12 -0500, sktsee wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:08 -0700, Matt Price wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > I'm having a problem with xorg right now, as of my most recent gutsy
> > update (last night) -- i can't load xorg using the nvidia module (see my
> > bug report  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151213 ).  
> > 
> > In trying to diagnose it, I'm having trouble finding the xorg log from
> > the unsuccsessful attempt made with nvidia; and instead of the old,
> > user-unfriendly but informative text message that gdm gave when x
> > failed, I get the graphical bulletproof x screen suggesting i start x
> > with the vesa module in 800x600 mode.  Since I need the detailed xserver
> > log to diagnose my problem, i'm wondering if there's any way for me to
> > turn off the failsafe x, & grab my logging infor from the screen.  
> 
> X always saves the log of its previous start as /var/log/X.0.log.old.
> Unless this behavior has changed in gutsy, X.0.log.old should be a log
> of X's initial failed start with X.0.log being a log of the
> bulletproofX's successful start.
> 
> Also, I believe you can modify /etc/gdm/gdm.conf to change whether or
> not gdm restarts X in failsafe mode.

thanks.  I guess I was missing the data in Xorg.0.log.old; in any case
was able to modify /etc/gdm/gdm.conf to disable the failsafe server,
which gave me the info i needed.  in my case, the nvidia driver is not
found, i imagine due to some compatibility issue -- maybe the
linux-restricted-modules and linux-image packages have some kind of a
mismatch?  anyway, i'm hoping it will sork\t itself out soon.

thanks,
matt


> -- 
> sktsee
> 
> 
-- 
Matt Price
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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