Strange things at start-up
Antonio Montagnani
anto.montagnani at virgilio.it
Sat Feb 4 15:56:06 UTC 2006
Mike Chambers wrote / ha scritto on /il 04/02/2006 15:32:
> 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.
>
>
I made also this test, with the system that should log to an user
automatically...
It does it, but icons are huge (very large), no scrolling and screen is
in black/white: if I hit Ctrl+Alt+BackSpc I get a normal login screen,
standard dimensions and color is blue.
Is GDM getting crazy?
--
Antonio
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