Strange things at start-up

[Mike Chambers]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 14:31 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> Antonio Montagnani wrote / ha scritto on /il 04/02/2006 11:24:
> > after recent upgrades (I mean latest of yesterday), at start-up before 
> > the login screen, system freezes and I get an arrow on a grey screen. 
> > If I hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, system starts fine and any user can log 
> > in the usual screen, but I can see for a short time the no-graphical 
> > login screen with small characters.
> > Furthermore while at boot I have normal characters (I do not any 
> > graphiccal interface at boot) when I stop the machine characters have 
> > become small
> > Everything was o.k. until this morning when I re-booted the machine 
> > (no-reboot yesterday after upgrades)
> >
> video card is ATI9000, no problem at all with Linux: shall I need to 
> post any log file (which one?)?

Might check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to see which driver is being
used.  Might have vesa driver detected and need to change it to ati or
radeon.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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