On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 08:11:34AM -0400, ernst doubt wrote: > Hi all, > > i had sent a message to debian-laptop a few hours back, but all i've > seen so far is one response (suggesting i use q4os). i'm pretty > committed to using debian directly though (at least until i've tried an > awful lot more things). > > After installing buster, this brand new laptop of mine seems to hang on > X (GDM) starting -- after briefly showing a flashing underscore char in > the top left corner of the screen, it drops back to command-line output > (but doesn't allow me to login).
[...] It seems that your X server is giving up for some reason. Not a graphics expert here, but you may get some hints by inpecting the X log file (called typically Xorg.0.log -- it usually lives in /var/log or perhaps in your home directory. Towards the end, you might find some lines tagged with (EE) -- those are errors. The content of that file might be of help to folks around here to diagnose your problem. Cheers -- tomás
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