[Cialug] debian605+gdm3

[Dan Hockey]

I tried a newer used ati 3d video card and now it works.
-dan 
--- On Mon, 9/3/12, Dan Hockey <icepuck3k at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Dan Hockey <icepuck3k at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] debian605+gdm3
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Monday, September 3, 2012, 2:07 PM
> <snip>.
> > 
> > If you wanted to try to explore the root cause...(which
> you
> > might end up doing after reinstalling in text mode
> anyway):
> > 
> > Enter into init level 1, "recovery mode" or whatever
> > mechanism you used earlier to get into a console. 
> You
> > can also use "init=/bin/sh" as an added argument to the
> grub
> > kernel line (but then issue "mount -o remount,rw /"
> after
> > you're dropped to a shell).
> > 
> > Then, issue:
> > 
> >   cp /etc/X11/default-display-manager{,-bak}
> >   cp /dev/null /etc/X11/default-display-manager
> >   mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf{,-bak} # it might not
> exist...
> > 
> > Reboot.  The system should come up normally but
> without
> > X.  Log in as root.
> > 
> > Issue "Xorg -configure" and look at the resulting
> > xorg.conf.new that's produced.  Does the driver match
> > (intel vs. nv vs. nvidia vs. ...)?  Is it displaying
> to
> > the HDMI output by default instead of the VGA?  etc.
> > 
> > Take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for indications of
> > previous problems, too.
> > -- Paul Gray             
> >                
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> with
> > the penguin
> >  No one says, "Hey, I can't read that ASCII
> attachment ya
> > sent me."
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> 
> what worked for me was...
> 
> update-rc.d gdm3 disable
> 
> at least now I can login directly
> 
> from looking at the log file it looks like it didn't
> recognize the
> monitor and kept falling back to the next lowest res
> setting.
> -dan
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