Hello Darek,
I would suspect the screen resolution that is being applied in the autoboot
(init 5) which your matrox card handles badly. I recall now that I had to
use Xconfigurator to get the screen resolution dwon to something pretty
basic (800x600) and then it would boot. The fact that startx won't work
would seem to indicate this.
hth
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darek KUZARA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] GUI startup - black screen
> "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote:
>
> > Interrupt the Aurora boot and get to the console.
> > Log in or enter the root password, depending on how you got there.
> > Then UNINSTALL Aurora.
>
>
> I do not think this is the Aurora problem. I booted also without using
Aurora at
> all and the problem persists. I managed however to get Gnome running at
one of
> the times I rebooted Mandrake. That was after I disabled X start-up at
boot (I
> booted from CD in rescue mode and edited file responsible for it,
commenting out
> the lines). However after trying to configure screen saver everything blew
up
> again.
>
>
> mike ryder wrote:
> > Use the rescue CD to boot the system and then change /etc/inittab so
that
> > the initdefault is 3 not 5. This will force the system to boot without
the
> > X-windows stuff.
>
> This I managed to do in different way, (see above)
>
> > Now reboot the server and you should come up with a console login.
>
> When I do just startx -> black screen (I can here my monitor changing its
mode).
> One could suspected wrongly defined monitor. However when I do
>
> xinit -- kde | gnome // or
> startx -- kde | gnome
>
> I get the following error message:
> Connection refuse errno (111) unable to connect X server
> No such process errno (3) :Server error
>
> > I had this problem when upgrading from MDK 7.1 to MDK 7.2 and it was
caused
> > by a setting in the X config files that stopped the X server from
loading
> > correctly and chewed up all of the resources. Problem - I forgot what
the
> > problem was !! ;-)
>
>
> While screen is black, it seems like X server or whatever process is
really
> chewed up all of the resources. The machine does not react on any keyboard
> action (event Caps Lock does not work).
>
> I reinstalled MAndrake again and surprisingly the same effect. CAn it be a
bug
> in Xfree 3.6.X ? Previously I used Xfree 4.X. By the way I have Matrox MGA
G200
> with 4 MB VRAM.
>
>
> Any help still appreciated. I am tempted to install Red Hat again.
>
>
> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > Have you tried piping the output from X to a file to see what the system
> > thinks it's doing? If you're starting X from a console, I think the line
is
> >
> > startx >xerrors 2>&1.
>
> That might be a solution. Cheers.
>
> > There's a standard output hidden (like everything in Unix) in some
obscure
> > file anyhow. It would be interesting to know what problem the system
sees
>
> I started to look for one, but at 3 o'clock in the morning I decided to
get some
> sleep before another working day.
>
>
> Any help still appreciated.
> Thanks for the suggestions already sent.
>
> Darek
>
>
