On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:11:47 -0500, Stephen Isard <[log in to unmask]
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>On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:23:12 +0100, Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]
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>>Try to boot with boot parameter "norhgb/"/
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>>linux norhgb
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>>norhgb turns graphical bootup off.
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>>If this help I should add norhgb to the failsafe option in the next
>>LiveCD release.
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>Thanks, Urs.  Booting with norhgb didn't change anything, but then I tri
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>d
>"nox" and that got me a console session.  After I logged in as sluser, I
 
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>was able to start an X session with "startx" and everything seemed norma
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>except that the time was off by 4 hours (ntpd wasn't running).

Hi Urs,

Is it possible that the reason "norhgb" has no effect is the line in
/etc/rc.sysinit that begins "if strstr "$cmdline" rhgb &&amp; ".  rhg
b won't get
invoked if the command line doesn't mention rhbg at all, but since
"rhgb" is a substring of "norhgb" ...

My problem seems to be that an xorg.conf that works for my hardware doesn
't
get configured until your runlast script, and whatever default configurat
ion
there is at the beginning causes a crash if rhgb is allowed to run.