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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #272877
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 272877

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Rune K. Svendsen (runeks) wrote : Re: Blank screen when GDM starts

You can change the driver to "vesa by getting to a console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or is it Alt+F1? I can't remember). Then shut down GDM by typing:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

Then you edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf with for example 'nano' by typing:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

There should be a "Device"-section that looks like this (there might be more lines of text between "Section" and "EndSection", but mine just looks like this when using the Intrepid Alpha 6 Live CD):

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

In this section add a line with the text "Driver "vesa"". Doing so with the example above would make it look like this:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Now start GDM again by typing:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start