gdm black on black

Ron Siven rsiven at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 19:59:39 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Murray, WJ (Bill)
<bill.murray at stfc.ac.uk>wrote:

>
>  Hello all,
>         I was fiddling with the fglrx driver, trying to get
> suspend to work, and I used the ati/amd installer instead of
> rpmfusion. Big mistake.
>   Since then my system has been broken. I have reverted to
> radeon, and fglrx from rpmfusion, but always the same symptoms:
>
> boot starts OK, with the sun, on plymouth
> until gdm should take over and offer log in possibilites.
> That step is black on black. I know it is working, because I
> can log in, but even after log in the display stays black-on-black.
> [I can check that I logged in via ssh]
>  I have replaced gdm/xorg/compiz/other rpms but no change.
>
> Can anyone suggest how to fix this please?
>  Sorry ....
>      Bill
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If you have xorg.conf you may want to  rename it, at least temporarily.
That'll tell you if fglrx changed it.
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