Hi, First of all am using ubuntu, never used PCLinux at all, so dont know what is the file layout of that OS. What i am going to say is on the basis of ubuntu linux .. Just try it.
In most cases X server error will be obtained from /var/log/messages. You are saying that you are not able to loggin to X server, so i am hopping that you can get the command prompt. Just switch to tty1 in ubutu Alt+Ctrl+F1 will do that. Hope you can login to that prompt. In that prompt just try #startx -- :2 That will start X server, if there any error that will be printed on the screen. Also in /var/log/messages . Just send that full error reprt, so that i can help you. Thank you Regards With regards, Unnikrishnan.A poornam info vision +919847753402 unni at webofunni.com http://www.webofunni.com/ "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle" On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Zaheer Kozhakkaniyil <zaheermk at email.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > On my friend's laptop, PCLinuxOS GNOME edition live CD booted > perfectly in to the GNOME desktop. And after logging in, successfully > installed it on the system. But after installing, it is not logging in to > the Xserver / GUI. The installed system boots well and then the Xserver > tries some 2 - 3 times to log in and then comes to the help screen stating > that X cannot log in. Some error messages that come are: > > 1. 'PCI bus id' not found > 2. '/dev/agpgart' not found > 3. 'Video RAM' set too low? > > Some rounds of troubleshooting we had: > > 1. tried replacing the installed system's xorg.conf with the liveCD's > xorg.conf file. > 2. tried specifying an option of video RAM, when it asked for a > probability of low video RAM. > 3. tried with the 'vesa' driver; default detected was 'intel' driver. > 4. tried removing the 'ACPI' kernel option at boot time. > 5. tried putting in the 'PCI bus' option. > 6. tried changing the default resolution to 16bit 800x600; default in the > other OS is 24bit 1280x1024. > 7. tried disabling the 'translucency' option. > 8. tried disabling the 'DPMS' option. > > Well, none of the above worked. What puzzles me is that the hardware > is fully supported, since the liveCD is booting in to the Xserver / GUI > without any issues; still it doesn't log in to Xserver when it is installed. > So what I thought was there would be some script / command running while the > liveCD is booting, whereas it is not enabled in the installed version. > > Does anybody have any clue as to what could be the possible reason > for this? > > The laptop configuration is Intel Core 2 Duo processor with > integrated graphics, 2GB RAM etc. > > > Zaheer M K > GNU/Linux user #351122 > Registered at http://counter.li.org > > > -- See Exclusive Video: * 10th Annual Young Hollywood > Awards*<http://www.hollywoodlife.net/younghollywoodawards2008/> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailinglist mailing list > Mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20080516/453c781a/attachment.html
