[Techtalk] killed my xserver

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:42:11AM -0800 or thereabouts, Maria McKinley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I upgraded (some packages, not the kernel), and now I can't run X. :-( I 
> am running Debian stable, Linux version 2.6.8-2-k7. I have tried to 
> re-configure XF86Config-4 with the exact specs of my monitor, but this 
> didn't help. I can't find anything useful in the logs either. Nothing 
> marked error. The only clue is that if I try to do startx (instead of 
> starting it with gdm), I get this message in XFree86.0.log

I can't be much help but did you try as root:

X -configure

This should probe and generate a /root/xorg.conf.new or similar.  Then you
run:

X -xf86config=/root/xorg.conf.new

to test (I can't remember the exact syntax there but the X -configure
command should give you the correct command to run).  If it works, that
should give you the standard grey screen with the 'X' cursor.
<ctrl><alt><backspace> to kill that.

Conor
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Conor Daly,                   
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