Cannot get X to start

[industrial-ghetto]

Ah, thank you.  This fixed it perfectly.  I also found a longer description
of the problem here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=541630



industrial-ghetto wrote:
> 
> 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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