Re: Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

[Daniel Trebbien]

> 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 (?). Running `sudo startx` appears to have the same effect as when `gdm` is starting;  I see a black screen with a single, white underscore at the top. Looking through `/var/log/gdm/:0.log` (yes, there's a colon at the beginning), the only thing that is listed as an error is: (EE) "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware. (EE) PreInit failed for input device ""SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"" (EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device (EE) PreInit returned NULL for ""SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"" (EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device (EE) PreInit returned NULL for ""Macintosh mouse button emulation"" Looking through `/var/log/Xorg.0.log`, there are similar messages: (EE) "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware. (EE) PreInit failed for input device ""SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"" ... (EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device ... (EE) PreInit returned NULL for ""SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"" ... (EE) PreInit returned NULL for ""Macintosh mouse button emulation""