[Techtalk] killed my xserver

[Maria McKinley]

Conor Daly wrote:
> 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

Is this different than doing dpkg-reconfigure?

~maria