On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:37:04AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/30/13, Thomas H. George <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote: > > Problem: On initial bootup there is a message that gdm3 is not fully > > installed, probably a hardware problem. (The Gigabyte mb has onboard > > video AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics) > > > > Problem: Despite bootup message classic gnome display appears and works > > but switching to terminals fails (Ctl-Alt-F1 results in the screen going > > blank, then No Signal) > > Inside GNOME, can you open a terminal and if so, what do you get with: > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get upgrade > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
System fully up to date as you would expect with a fresh netinstall. > dpkg --status xserver-xorg-video-radeon | grep Status > Status: install ok installed At the moment the system boots with tty1 to tty6 available but no desktop, nothing at F7. Opened tty1 as root and ran the above commands with the result shown. Then entered debconf xdm. Immediatedly the gnome classic desktop opened at F7 and the terminals at tty1 through tty6 were lost as described in the original post. No problem opening a root terminal in the gnome desktop. less /etc/X11/default-display-manager responds /usr/sbin/xdm. /etc/init.d/xdm restart closes the desktop but can't reopen it. Though all the screens are blue and display No Signal the desktop can still hear the keyboard. F7 followed by Ct-Alt-Del will reboot the system. That's the problem with working with a root terminal in the desktop. If I reboot the system to restore the tty terminals, open tty1 as root and enter /etc/init.d/xdm the response is [ ok] Stopping x display manager: xdm not running (/var/run/xdm.pid not found). Not starting x display manager (xdm): it is not the default display manager. On the other hand if I enter /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart I get [ ok ] Stopping the GNOME display manager: gdm3 [info] Not starting GNOME display manager: it is not the default display manager. > -- > 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/caosgnst_h4qy1w1yvtncockho_1zfuxvay0rvdt0fu4raub...@mail.gmail.com > > -- 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/20130830183632.ga22...@tomgeorge.info
