<p dir="ltr">But it is upsetting that you have hardware not being used at the moment. You cannot enjoy smooth scroll in browsers not accerated video playback or 3D acceleration for some applications.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I see xorg.conf being used in your logs. Xorg is self configuring for quite a while. Try renaiming this file and run X.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 1, 2016 1:33 PM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yep, vesa works thankfully. It's strange because during the original<br>
install of wheezy it tried to use vesa and failed so I switched to the<br>
trident driver since the chip is a trident. Oh well, as long as it<br>
works I'm happy.<br>
<br>
On 2016-05-01 07:28, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
> Try some other driver. Vesa or fb.<br>
><br>
> On May 1, 2016 12:01 AM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:agcarver%252Bale@acarver.net">agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> A little extra info, I fired up top in a remote shell and tried to run<br>
> startx on the console. I saw startx fire up followed by xinit and then,<br>
> after some delay, both went away.<br>
><br>
> On 2016-04-30 20:07, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
> > Runlevel is 2 so no login managers are running.<br>
> ><br>
> > No display managers are installed either (dpkg comes up blank)<br>
> ><br>
> > The log doesn't scream anything obvious to me but this is what I get<br>
> > (currently the screen is blank as of posting this log file, but Xorg is<br>
> > no longer listed in the process list. In fact I think I caught it dying<br>
> > (I thought I spotted a Z-zombie next to it in top).<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On 2016-04-30 19:58, Dustin Strickland wrote:<br>
> >> Just some wild guesses, but maybe check your runlevel. Perhaps run a<br>
> `dpkg -l<br>
> >> *dm` to see if perhaps the upgrade installed a display manager for some<br>
> reason.<br>
> >> Do you have anything relevant in your Xorg logs?<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:agcarver%252Bale@acarver.net">agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net</a>><br>
> >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:agcarver%252Bale@acarver.net">agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net</a>>>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> Already did that, didn't work.<br>
> >><br>
> >> On 2016-04-30 18:20, DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>
> >> > Create a new account and try that. That will rule out<br>
> userid-specific config<br>
> >> > issues.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > On 04/30/2016 08:40 PM, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
> >> >> I just upgraded a laptop from Wheezy to Jessie. Under Wheezy<br>
> everything<br>
> >> >> was fine, I could log in then run startx to bring up the desktop<br>
> >> >> (fluxbox). Under Jessie I can't get anything to come up, I just<br>
> get a<br>
> >> >> black screen. Even the virtual terminals are dead (can't<br>
> Ctrl-Alt-Fn or<br>
> >> >> crash out with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> Nothing seems out of the ordinary, I don't see any obvious error<br>
> >> >> messages during the startup process.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> I'd love suggestions about other places to look for any other<br>
> issues.<br>
> >> >> Command line is working, video looks normal there. I don't<br>
> think any<br>
> >> >> configurations changed but I do have a backup of /etc to compare<br>
> against<br>
> >> >> but a quick glance says no changes.<br>
> ><br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
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