<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Chris G <<a href="mailto:cl@isbd.net">cl@isbd.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:27:47PM +0000, Robert Spanjaard wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:19:48 +0100, Chris G wrote: > > >> There's no .xsession-errors, it hasn't got that far. Also, as I > >> reported, there don't seem to be any problems in /var/Xorg.0.log. > >> > >> It's an Intel chipset motherboard. > >> > >> Intel Corporation 4 Series chipset > >> > > The only odd thing I can see in /var/Xorg.0.log is:- > > > > (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 304 x 228 > > > > I suspect that there's no way my monitor is going to manage that > > resolution! > > "Physical size" is the size of your screen in milimeters. Your system uses > that data, combined with the width and height in pixels, to calculate the > PPI of your screen. That information, in turn, is used for things like > setting the right font sizes. > </div>Oh, OK, so that's not the issue then. I just can't find any error messages or processes failing to start, everything looks perfect but I don't have a login/GUI/X. </blockquote><div>Have you tried starting gdm from the terminal as root: # gdm & Jack </div></div>