[nmglug] still no screen

[okeefe at cybermesa.com]

Nope-didn't work. I'm attaching the log files if you want to take a look
at them. I'm not savy enough to know what to look for. Thanks if you
can....
(did see something about a missing meta-city config)



  On Sat, October 17, 2009 11:09 pm, Brendan wrote:
> 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
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