lrhorer put forth on 10/24/2010 11:52 PM: > > Well, this is the third or fourth upgrade to Squeeze from Lenny I have > attempted, and they all have been painful. This one has failed, > though. I upgraded and got everything working, but then I decided to > clean up a bit. I did a couple of runs of `apt-get autoremove` and an > `apt-get upgrade, along with installing startupmanager. I removed the > old 2.6.26 kernel image, and then updated Grub. Then I rebooted the > machine. Grub comes up, and if I let it boot to Windows, it works, but > if I select Linux (normal or recovery), very shortly after starting to > boot the video output from the machine just dies. I don't mean it goes > blank, I mean the video goes away altogether, as if the machine is shut > down. The monitor reports a loss of video signal, yet the PC is still > running and continues to access the hard drive. > > When it was working, the machine would start out in text mode, but > quickly would switch to graphics mode when booting. I am not certain, > but I think it is at this same point the video output dies, now. I've > tried booting from the installation CD and removing then re-installing > xorg, kdm, and kdebase. No joy. What should I try, now?
Boot to runlevel 2 (text only console) from Grub. From the bash prompt do a "startx" and see what happens. Troubleshoot from there. As long as you can boot to a prompt you're in business WRT troubleshooting this as you can cat/grep logs and edit config files to get X running again. -- Stan -- 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/4cc51b22.80...@hardwarefreak.com
