On Jul 10, 2011 12:57 PM, "Camaleón" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:00:31 -0400, jiang lei wrote: > > > i can not start xserver after my laptop(lenovo T61) was forced to > > turn > > off while running in multi-head configuration. The laptop runs Debian > > Squeeze and i use a LCD as secondary monitor in the office, it always > > works perfectly. Yesterday i took the laptop back to home and booted it > > as usual(runlevel 5), only to find that pointer flashed on the screen > > and dispeared, after that a blinking cursor on the left top of the > > screen which can echo the char i input. I switched to tty1 and generated > > the xorg.conf using command "Xorg :1 -configure" , the following is the > > content of xorg.conf: > > (...) > > It's still unclear where the problem is... > > What happens when you go to "init 1" and then run "startx"? >
Not sure this is your issue but most people don't run startx directly. It's generally an init script to start the desktop manager (xdm, gdm, kdm, etc).

