<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> NoOp wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:g78a7n$pmj$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 08/03/2008 10:28 PM, Jerry Alber wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">NoOp wrote: </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">That's just odd... Maybe Leonard has a good point; at the login window, can you select "Options" (lower left corner) and then select "Select Session", then "Failsafe GNOME" mode. Let's see if it's flipping back because xserver is crashing. Before you do that however; do Ctrl-Alt-F1 and see if you get a tty login, see if you can login that way. If you can login from tty mode then log back out ('exit') and return to the login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F7) and login using Failsafe GNOME. As for checking the logs from FC; check /var/crash and see if there is something in there, as well as /var/log/Xorg.0.log. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">NoOp, Thanks for your very quick reply! I checked /var/crash and there was nothing there. I also checked /var/log/xorg.0.log. It was there and very long but I am not sure exactly what I should be looking for. I can get in by using "Failsafe GNOME". </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Cool! That means that gdm is probably having fits with your graphics card/driver. I also used Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">into that TTY. I logged in and then typed "startx". It said "Server is already active for display 0. If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and try again. I removed the lock and did startx. It started and I got the regular GUI screen with the 2 panels - top and bottom. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That's normal & cool again! Just logout of the tty (or use 'exit') and use Ctrl-Alt-F7 after exit. That will take you back to the login screen or your gdm session depending upon when you exited gdm to to tty. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">It seems to work as it should unless I go back to Ctrl-Alt-F1 which takes me to that TTY screen, but when I go to Ctrl-Alt-F7 which should take me back to the GUI I just left, I get the login screen instead. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That's not normal, but it might be because you are still having problem with your graphics - so put that one on the back burner for now. If </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I log in, it goes no where and I just sit there with an orange screen. Interesting. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> OK, now that you are in gdm mode, open a terminal and: sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg log out and try to log back in normally by setting the session to "GNOME" and see if that works. Your resolution might be off & if it causes you to not see the panels, use: Alt-F2 and enter: gnome-display-properties and see if you can set your proper resolution. If that doesn't work, use Alt-F2 again and enter: gksu displayconfig-gtk and try to set the screens from there. Note: click the "Graphics Card" tab & see if your GC driver looks correct. If not don't do anything yet, just post back on what it shows. If it still gives you fits, set the session back to "Failsafe GNOME" and log back in. I think we are getting closer... as I see it, this is a graphics card/driver gdm issue, & again _thanks_ for your patience in testing all of this. If we can peg down your problem(s) then you can post on your launchpad thread & hopefully help others & the developers modify the install CD's. </pre> </blockquote> NoOp, Did you get my email that I sent on the 5th? Just incase, I am repeating it below. Once I use startx in the Ubuntu Alternate CD, I checked the logs and it seems to recognize the Raedon graphics card and the LCD monitor that I am using. If you are too busy right now to deal with this problem since I can see by the number of times your name appears in the mailing list, you are very far from being idle. I did the above but still can not log back in. I did make a hard copy of the xorg-conf file before I did the above. After doing the above, I took another look and it was still the same. The odt attachment contains both the Ubuntu 8.04.1 alternate and Ubuntu-Studio 7.10 xorg-conf files. The latter is much more explicit than the former Ubuntu 8.04.1. Ubuntu 8.04.1 does not seem to have trouble finding the Radeon driver; it's just not registering with the xorg.conf file. Where is the debconf database? Is there a way to populate it? If worse come to worse, I can always start with run-level 3 and then use "startx" although I would rather not. At least mabey we're getting closer to the real problem. Take care, Jerry </body> </html>