On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Avi Greenbury < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Morning all. > > I've got quite an intermittent problem with my laptop: > When I boot, sometimes it gets as far as starting GDM, and then the screen > goes blank as per the usual change from a text display to a graphical one, > but the grahical one doesn't appear - I'm left with a blank screen that is > definitely powered up. > ctrl-alt-F* doesn't get me anything viewable. It's not yet happened on > enough of a network for me to know whether the network's still up or see if > I can ssh in. > In general, powering it off then rebooting gets it working. It does work > more times than not, but I'm not sure of the ratio. Somewhere a bit better > than half successful, I'd imagine. > > It's an IBM Thinkpad T21, with a Savage graphics chipset. I'm running > Debian 4 fully updated. > The xorg log is at: > http://aviswebsite.co.uk/moses211108.xorg.log > And doesn't seem to contain any errors, but I don't really know what to > look for beyond EE and WW. > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! > > -- > Avi Greenbury :) http://aviswebsite.co.uk > > http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions/ > > I had some problems in the past similar to yours on a T22, same graphics chip. I ran (and still do) testing/unstable and after some updates, it started working as expected. I don't think it's disk-related. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
