[sclug] HELP X Mandrake 9.1
Scott Rixon
scott at green-flag.com
Sat Oct 25 09:05:42 UTC 2003
Log in as 'root' or a user and the same thing.. Starts loading X mouse
appears.. Screen then flicks like it is changing res and drops back to
the command prompt with the same errors.
Scott
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 17:12, lug at assursys.co.uk wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2003, Scott Rixon wrote:
>
> > Here is my Log.. There is some stuff at the bottom about the mga driver.
> > It has a Matrox video card..
>
> I don't think those "drm symbol unresolved" lines are relevant as I'm sure
> I've seen them before with a working (albeit non-MGA) configuration -
> they're unresolved until the appropriate DRM kernel modules get auto-loaded,
> IME. If you're getting the gdm login screen, then I expect what I've said is
> especially true (it shows X is working)
>
> What happens if you boot to runlevel 3 (or whatever is "multi-user, network
> enabled, but no display manager" on your distro) and run 'startx' as the
> affected users. What about as root?
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex.
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