Cannot get X to start

[industrial-ghetto]

I'm unsure of which firmware packages to install.  I did the net install and
it went rather quickly.  What firmware packages should I install?

Thanks!

-John



Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:51 PM, industrial-ghetto <r400653 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> When gdm starts, I get a black screen which is a tiling of several boot
>> screen images.  It's very small.  I thought that perhaps this was because
>> of
>> a lacking Modes line, so I went ahead and created an xorg.conf file and
>> then
>> put a line in it.  It did change the resolution of the tiled screen, but
>> nothing else happened.  I cannot seem to be able to solve this problem,
>> although everything looks right.
>>
>> I have tried dpkg-reconfigure as well, this seems to have been very
>> quiet.
>>
>> I am running the versions that one would get if YESTERDAY one downloaded
>> the
>> SMALL CD install from Debian and simply blindly loaded it onto the
>> system.
>> Nonetheless, Xorg -version states that it is
>> server 1.7.7, release 2010-05-04
>> Current OS 2.6.32-5-686
>> pixman 0.16.4
>>
>> Xorg.0.log is enormous, over 1GB in size.  The following are repeated:
>> (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE stop -9
>> (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE start -9
>> (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE idle -9
>> (EE) R128(0): Idle time out, resetting engine...
>> and then again.
>>
>> The stock 5.0.1 Debian distro worked flawlessly.
> 
> Make sure you'e installed the firmware packages.
> 
> Alex
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