Kent West wrote:
Default User wrote:
I just installed Etch Testing using the Netinst CD. Upon bootup, the
GDM dialog box appears, X starts with a rapidly vibrating image....
<snip>
Obviously, this is annoying, but here's what I really worry about: the
computer is running while I'm away (maybe all day), and an all too
frequent temporary electrical power outage occurs. When the power comes
back on, the computer dutifully reboots, stalling at the GDM log in
point. It then spends hours frying the monitor and/or graphics card . .
. or worse. Much worse.
Is there a solution?
I don't know the real solution (other than tinkering with
/etc/X11/xorg.conf until the real problem is fixed), but a work-around
is simply to de-activate the automatic startup of X. Uninstall [xwgk]dm.
Then just run "startx" when you want to start X.
or just change /etc/init.d/gdm by putting an 'exit 0' at the beginning
and take it out when you are there to play with it.
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