roxority
November 4th, 2008, 03:46 AM
Hi,
since the upgrade, I cannot log into GDM, as many others. Yes, I have googled and found a LOT of similar problems, ranging from X Server problems to ATI "poo poo proprietary driver" problems to compiz problems... but none of them quite solving my own problem here.
I have installed the latest ATI (xorg-driver-fglrx) drivers and I followed the steps at http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Intrepid_Installation_Guide#Installing_the_ restricted_drivers_.22the_Ubuntu_way.22
including running the aticonfig tool.
Before that, my login screen was seriously messed up with a psychedelic "animation" (even after trying xfix and apt-get-autoremoving-purging and dpk?-reconfigure for both X and gdm). That is gone now and GDM seems to start up using the proper resolution (otoh I also at some point restored the xorg.conf that was backed up just before the dist-upgrade and that WORKED under 8.04).
However, I STILL cannot get hold of the login screen. Im not so sure this is still a video driver issue since the resolution and color depth seems to be OK now and the psycho animation is gone (even though fglrxinfo still says "unable to open display (null)" -- but lets not go into that, unless that is a serious problem and you know a fix...)
So, since I disabled the auto-starting of GDM in /etc/init.d, after I boot up Im in the shell where I type sudo gdm. Screen goes black, X cursor appears, screen goes light-brown (Ubuntu default theme) and the white pointer cursor appears, and then EVERY 1-2 SECONDS a wait cursor appears very briefly, the login screen (Ubuntu logo plus username textbox) appears for a FRACTION of a second before the entire screen flashes WHITE for another fraction, then goes back to light-brown with the login screen gone again until this all of this is repeated another 1-2 seconds later. This goes on forever. Well, until I shut down the laptop.
Hardware specs: ATI Radeon HD 2600, Acer TravelMate 5720, 4GB RAM, Intel Centrino dual core, 64bit.
Any ideas? I wonder whether the flashing login screen isnt a known issue that I just didnt find because googling only finds all kinds of issues with (Adobe) Flash...
since the upgrade, I cannot log into GDM, as many others. Yes, I have googled and found a LOT of similar problems, ranging from X Server problems to ATI "poo poo proprietary driver" problems to compiz problems... but none of them quite solving my own problem here.
I have installed the latest ATI (xorg-driver-fglrx) drivers and I followed the steps at http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Intrepid_Installation_Guide#Installing_the_ restricted_drivers_.22the_Ubuntu_way.22
including running the aticonfig tool.
Before that, my login screen was seriously messed up with a psychedelic "animation" (even after trying xfix and apt-get-autoremoving-purging and dpk?-reconfigure for both X and gdm). That is gone now and GDM seems to start up using the proper resolution (otoh I also at some point restored the xorg.conf that was backed up just before the dist-upgrade and that WORKED under 8.04).
However, I STILL cannot get hold of the login screen. Im not so sure this is still a video driver issue since the resolution and color depth seems to be OK now and the psycho animation is gone (even though fglrxinfo still says "unable to open display (null)" -- but lets not go into that, unless that is a serious problem and you know a fix...)
So, since I disabled the auto-starting of GDM in /etc/init.d, after I boot up Im in the shell where I type sudo gdm. Screen goes black, X cursor appears, screen goes light-brown (Ubuntu default theme) and the white pointer cursor appears, and then EVERY 1-2 SECONDS a wait cursor appears very briefly, the login screen (Ubuntu logo plus username textbox) appears for a FRACTION of a second before the entire screen flashes WHITE for another fraction, then goes back to light-brown with the login screen gone again until this all of this is repeated another 1-2 seconds later. This goes on forever. Well, until I shut down the laptop.
Hardware specs: ATI Radeon HD 2600, Acer TravelMate 5720, 4GB RAM, Intel Centrino dual core, 64bit.
Any ideas? I wonder whether the flashing login screen isnt a known issue that I just didnt find because googling only finds all kinds of issues with (Adobe) Flash...