Geir, As soon as gdm starts it switches up a black screen and the pc stops altogether. No keyboard keys do anything, example Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't do anything, so there's no way to get into the system at all. The only key that works is power off.
What I need is a way to start X without starting Gnome. I don't know enough about X to do that; the closest I came was to boot recovery mode from the CD, at the menu choose root prompt, do nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf to enter the ModeDebug true, then do: /etc/init.d/gdm restart && /etc/init.d/gdm stop. That seemed to do a gdm start followed shortly by a stop, which it did before GNOME hung the system. I don't know if there is enough in the Xorg.0.log to indicate a problem. Attached is an Xorg.0.log from that try, as saved on a partition. There is a whole lot of dumpregs at the bottom, I wouldn't know from the problem or from stopping gdm. I need a way to stop GNOME before the black screen switches up, or else a way to start X without starting GNOME. maybe the system will still be alive enough to save the Xorg.0.log. Gnome does a hard hang to everything. The processor chip stops executing any instructions at all. I don't know the linux commands that well. Let me look in a couple books. Jerry ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log from resarting and stopping gdm" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27801811/Xorg.0.log.restart.stop -- [i845g] karmic CD Live black screen i840 video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385947 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
