[nmglug] still no screen

[Brendan]

On 10/17/2009 09:02 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> Still trying to find out why I have no screen in Jaunty. I have booted
> into recovery mode and reconfigured the xserver with dpkg as well as
> with "X -configure". the last command created a nice xorg.conf in
> /root/X11. The xorg.conf in /etc/X11 is sparse by comparison. However,
> running "startx" from the prompt just goes to a slightly lit but black
> screen. Can't get back to the command line with ctrl+alt+F2.
> The question is if I should copy the /root/X11/xorg.config to the
> /etc/X11/xorg.config?

That'd cause it to start getting used, so yeah.  Have you looked at the 
Xorg log file in /var/log?  There are often clues about what's happening 
there.  Or ~/.xsession-errors, if it's getting that far.

-Brendan