GUI not loading

[Iuri Sampaio]

I installed debian a few days ago and my Xserver is not loading properly. It has a weird behavior. It doesn’t work if I boot up at first time but once I reset it, it works fine. desktop:~# shutdown -r now   So I guess is a device loading problem. How do I get rid of it?   I went to the log files and got from /var/log/syslog. I believe just this part is need to understand the issue. I highlighted what I thought is important. Is there another log file I should be watching? By the way I run: desktop:~# uname -a Linux desktop 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux   Sep  8 08:13:27 localhost kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16) Sep  8 08:13:28 localhost gdm[17964]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Sep  8 08:13:32 localhost gdm[17984]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Sep  8 08:13:37 localhost gdm[17986]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Sep  8 08:13:37 localhost gdm[17961]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the XKeepsCrashing script Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost syslogd 1.4.1#17: restart. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: klogd 1.4.1#17, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.27-2-386 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Loaded 18328 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.27-2-386. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.27. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Loaded 536 symbols from 23 modules. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Mon May 16 16:47:5 1 JST 2005 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: 896MB LOWMEM available. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 229376 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: zone(1): 225280 pages. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: zone(2): 0 pages. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 Nvidia                                    ) @ 0x000f75c0 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3000 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3040 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff74c0 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Found and enabled local APIC! Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Initializing CPU#0 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Detected 1094.140 MHz processor. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 2182.34 BogoMIPS Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Memory: 901612k/917504k available (1069k kernel code, 15504k reserved, 459k data, 96k init, 0k highmem) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm)  stepping 01 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Checking for popad bug... OK. Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Sep  8 14:59:21 localhost kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts.