On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:47:57 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59...@care2.com> wrote:
> Daniel Trebbien wrote: > > I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409, running Debian > > testing (Squeeze). This morning when I started my laptop, the > > computer booted and I was able to use my GNOME desktop as usual. > > This afternoon, however, when I started my laptop, the screen went > > "black" a short moment after I saw: "Starting GNOME Display > > Manager: gdm". More specifically, the laptop screen's backlight is > > on and all I see is a single, white underscore at the top left of > > the screen (almost as if `gdm` failed to "take over" the display). > > The hard drive activity LED is flashing even with the "black" > > screen (all black except for the single underscore character), but > > the graphical login screen does not appear and typing on the > > keyboard has no effect on the display. > > > I have been seeing problem with X not starting properly without using startx. you may want to give that a try. also you may want to check the /var/log directory for Xorg.log and gdm.log (?). Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100404100750.1dcf2...@windy.deldotd.com
