Re: problem starting X [resolved]

2017-08-21 Thread stan
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 18:41:25 +1000 Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > I took this route, and changed my display manager from GDM to LXDM > (trivial with system-switch-displaymanager). > > Tested a cold start a few times and it works well. > > Other good things came along for the ride: > - it offered my u

Re: problem starting X [resolved]

2017-08-21 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
On 21/08/17 01:40, stan wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:33:35 +1000 Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: [snip] Xorg.0.log Xorg.1.log 1st 19.310- 35.891 35.764- 35.874 [35.869] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): EVO Push buffer channel allocation failed 2nd 502.160-516.936 517.023-519.53

Re: problem starting X

2017-08-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:33:35 +1000 Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: [snip] > Xorg.0.log Xorg.1.log > 1st19.310- 35.891 35.764- 35.874 > [35.869] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): EVO Push buffer channel > allocation failed 2nd 502.160-516.936 517.023-519.530 > > It is clear that in the fir

problem starting X

2017-08-19 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
I found many references to similar problems but none are suitable in my case. I know that I am using an old video card but it is understood to be supported. I think that the problem is in the way the server starts and may be easy to work around. Details below. The symptom is this: - I start the