>> I've noticed that during (sid) startup the font appears to be changed >> - both on my desktop box and on the laptop. On the desktop box this is >> OK - I get to see more of the boot messages scrolling past before GDM >> starts.
>Sounds like you're booting into a framebuffer mode that your desktop can cope >with and your laptop cannot. Possible - but then the laptop would never manage the change would it not? It does manage it after a couple of reboots or so. I get the feeling that it's just dodgy rather than fully non-supported. >I'm not quite sure though. I can't quite decide what you mean by "when this >switches in." Do you mean the console font at boot (on tty1), or when GDM >switches in on the laptop? When the console font changes. It changes from standard 80x25 to something else (not sure what - quite a lot smaller characters). Before this started happening the switch to gdm was OK. After this started - if the console font change goes thru then the change to gdm is also OK - if (as happens most of the time) the console font change dies so gdm fails to come up - in fact I can't get anything to show at that point and have to powercycle the laptop. >Well, either way, it's a place to start. If you're using LILO, look for the >vga= line. If it has some number after it, it's probably a framebuffer mode. >Try "vga=normal" instead. For GRUB, I have no idea. I'm sure there's >something similar. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep vga /etc/lilo.conf # vga=ask # vga=9 vga=normal So - vga is set to normal. Only changes to the machine are regular apt-get updates - I've made no config changes is over 3 months. -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
