On 21/08/2010 18:13:09, Fred Boatwright wrote: > The screen is completely black. No mouse pointer. When the xorg.conf > file is tested using Xorg -conf xorg.conf.new -retro I get the gray grid > and the X mouse pointer. Without the -retro I get a totally black > screen, no mouse pointer.
Um.... yes. That's what the '-retro' flag does: reintroduce the grid
pattern etc. that lets you confirm X is responsive, rather than the new
and really not at all improved behaviour of just throwing up a black
screen which is remarkably similar to some common failure modes.
Try starting up a window manager or similar. It might be that nothing
at all is actually wrong...
Cheers,
Matthew
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