Can't restart x on card O

Lawrence E Graves lgraves at risingstarmbc.com
Tue Nov 10 19:28:18 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 10:14 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 10:43 -0700, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> 
> > > less /var/log/Xorg.0.log will let you look at it. If you have a USB
> > > stick, you can plug it in, and - as root - do something like:
> > > 
> > > mkdir /mnt/temp
> > > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/temp
> > > 
> > > to mount it at /mnt/temp , then copy it there, so you can paste it from
> > > another machine. the /dev/sdb1 will vary, it depends on many hard disks
> > > you have. Do:
> > > 
> > > ls /dev/sd*
> > > 
> > > both before and after plugging in the USB stick. The one that only shows
> > > up after is the USB stick.
> 
> > I pray this will tell you something.  I just started a reinstall to get
> > this information. It might be easier to instruct me from here as to what
> > I need to check as I install.
> 
> Unfortunately, if that log comes from an installation where the graphics
> are currently working, it doesn't tell us anything :/ Xorg.0.log is
> per-session; it only logs the _current_ X session. So that log is from
> the X that's working fine in your installation, and doesn't tell us
> what's going wrong on the installed system.
> 
> Let us know if you're still having trouble when this install completes,
> and we'll try and think of something.
> 
> -- 
> Adam Williamson
> Fedora QA Community Monkey
> IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
> http://www.happyassassin.net
> 
I just got thru installing again and this is the log before any drivers
are added.  Let me know what you think.

-- 
Lawrence E Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>
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