Blue Screen

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tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
> We installed Linux and some software for a customer and sent him the machine.
> First we made sure everything was OK, rebooted, etc.
> 
> But now when he is trying to bring it up it goes through all the initialization stuff,
> etc., but then he just gets the blue screen (you know, you usually get a blue
> screen but with a login box in the middle?). Anyway all he gets is a blue screen.
> 
> Any idea what could be wrong? I know before there was a problem where in /etc/inittab
> for runlevel 3, instead of 
> 
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> 
> I put
> 
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> 
> but I tried this on a machine here. It never gives you the blue screen.
> It hangs after the initialization, and never goes into X. Also, I had
> him bring up the kernal select and put a " s" for single-user mode,
> but the same thing happened.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
Try putting 3 or 1 (runlevels) instead of "s". I would use 3 instead of 
1 and try startx from there. Which display manager are you using?


which video driver are you using?

A stroll thru the log files wouldn't hurt either, which desktop is it 
again?KDE?GNOME?XFCE?

Here is my inittab:(i use KDE and GNOME(less and less, yeah!!))
[x33 at localhost xinit]$ cat /etc/inittab
# inittab is only used by upstart for the default runlevel.
#
# ADDING OTHER CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR SYSTEM.
#
# System initialization is started by /etc/event.d/rcS
#
# Individual runlevels are started by /etc/event.d/rc[0-6]
#
# Ctrl-Alt-Delete is handled by /etc/event.d/control-alt-delete
#
# Terminal gettys (tty[1-6]) are handled by /etc/event.d/tty[1-6] and
# /etc/event.d/serial
#
# For information on how to write upstart event handlers, or how
# upstart works, see init(8), initctl(8), and events(5).
#
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have 
networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:


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