Comment 14 for bug 259156

Thanks Chris,

Here are the logs from /etc/init.d/gdm start (after stop) using the
reconfigured xorg file.

I've run this machine for most of its life with ACPI disabled, as it
seems to cause crashes with nvidia drivers.

If the ACPI was the problem, then startx should not work either.

Maybe something stands out in these logs for you, as I'm stumped.

Thanks,
B. Bogart

Chris Coulson wrote:
> If the NVIDIA driver is not explicitly enabled in your xorg.conf, then
> Xorg will not load it. That error you see is because there is no
> compatible NVIDIA driver found (because it isn't loaded). Your Xorg log
> file from the attempt when you ran with the NVIDIA driver shows that the
> driver loading ok but can't read the EDID for your display.
>
> Your logs also show that the ACPI daemon on your machine isn't running,
> although I don't know what effect that would have or whether it is
> contributing to your problem:
>
> (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or
> directory)
>
> Could you please try to run with the default xorg.conf. To recreate
> this, run the following in a terminal:
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>
> This will create the default stripped down xorg.conf without all the
> modelines. Could you also attach your /var/log/syslog as well please?
>
> Thanks
>