Comment 15 for bug 259156

Any other suggestions for debugging? I believe I've supplied enough
information for this to be no longer marked as incomplete.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

B. Bogart

b wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "syslog"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16939706/syslog
>
> ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16939708/Xorg.0.log
>
> ** Attachment added: ":0.log"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16939710/%3A0.log
>