On 07/10/2011 01:26 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > On Jul 10, 2011 12:57 PM, "Camaleón" <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:00:31 -0400, jiang lei wrote: >> >>> i can not start xserver after my laptop(lenovo T61) was forced to >>> turn >>> off while running in multi-head configuration. The laptop runs Debian >>> Squeeze and i use a LCD as secondary monitor in the office, it always >>> works perfectly. Yesterday i took the laptop back to home and booted it >>> as usual(runlevel 5), only to find that pointer flashed on the screen >>> and dispeared, after that a blinking cursor on the left top of the >>> screen which can echo the char i input. I switched to tty1 and generated >>> the xorg.conf using command "Xorg :1 -configure" , the following is the >>> content of xorg.conf: >> >> (...) >> >> It's still unclear where the problem is... >> >> What happens when you go to "init 1" and then run "startx"? >> > > Not sure this is your issue but most people don't run startx directly. It's > generally an init script to start the desktop manager (xdm, gdm, kdm, etc). > Oh? I have been using startx for 15 + years now. Please let me know why I should be using xdm, gdm, kdm?
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