Strange things at start-up

[Antonio Montagnani]

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.
>
>   
Mike

it seems that installing module-init-tools from updates-testing fixes 
the problem.

-- 
 Antonio
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