On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:01:58PM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 04:55:15PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 15 May 2012 21:03:12 +0800, Hor Jiun Shyong wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > Hi... but there's no need to send this twice and please, no html posts :-) > > > > > Would be grateful if anyone could provide feedback on the below, thanks. > > > > Okay, let's see if I can give you some hints. There are usually X gurus > > around the list but let's do some tests until they can provide a more > > insightful view on this issue :-) > > > > > After installing proprietary driver > > > amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run on Sid amd64, both console and > > > X cannot be started. All was left after booting is a blinking "-" > > > prompt. Xorg log as below. > > > > Let me move up the fatal error: > > > > > [ 312.888] Fatal server error: > > > [ 312.888] xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT > > > [ 312.888] > > > [ 312.888] > > > > That's weird... It's like the xserver is not able to allocate a virtual > > console where to start X but I can't figure out what could be causing > > this :-? > > > > Maybe something (like /etc/inittab) got edited, and tty7 > was repurposed for a getty? It's important to leave tty7 > alone or X won't run. >
Also if inittab did get edited, could be you're calling a getty that isn't installed... -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- 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/20120515172345.GA4792@radhesyama
