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idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

After reboot I can only startx in low colordepths

Something strange happened on my other laptop. After I rebooted it wouldnt go into x, just gave me a black screen I couldnt get out of short of rebooting. I tried to fix this for several hours and decided to do a fresh install instead. Now that I did that the same problem persists. Did the graphic card collapse or something? Outside of x is ok..

I found now that I can startx with startx -- -depth 8

Can this be a driver issue (my card is a generic laptop one) or is it the card itself.

In /var/log/Xorg.0.log I got these (WW)'s: some nonexisting fonts, "XkbLayout" requires an string value and, this looks important, VESA(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum

Also when I close the wm I only get the same black screen as above and have to reboot.

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