Blue Screen

[Jim]

max wrote:
> 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:
>
>
His problem is going to be with his Video driver.