I switched from Gnome to Xfce (using Slim for a loging manager), and have also switched distros, so unfortunately I can't answer that question.<br><br>Aaron<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Andreas Beckmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:debian@abeckmann.de">debian@abeckmann.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Aaron,<br>
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On Friday, 31. December 2010 22:31:15 Aaron Barany wrote:<br>
> I am also experiencing this issue. I recently installed a GeForce GTX 460<br>
> on my system, which is running Squeeze, and am using the proprietary NVidia<br>
> drivers installed from the Squeeze repositories. Periodically gdm3 will<br>
> fail to launch and will show a blinking "_" cursor in the upper left. I can<br>
> generally recover without rebooting by switching to a different console<br>
> with ctrl-alt-F1, logging in, and running "/etc/init.d/gdm3 restart",<br>
> though sometimes it takes 2 tries to successfully launch gdm3. I have<br>
> attached my xorg.conf, Xorg0.log, and gdm3's 0.log and 0-greeter.log. (the<br>
> slave log was empty)<br>
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</div></div>Is this still an issue with a newer driver? 270.41.06-1 is now available in<br>
unstable.<br>
<br>
For your logs, the dmesg output while loading the module would have been<br>
interesting. The Xorg.0.log says this:<br>
<br>
(EE) Dec 31 11:44:54 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics<br>
device PCI:2:0:0.<br>
(EE) Dec 31 11:44:54 NVIDIA(0): Please check your system's kernel log for<br>
additional error<br>
(EE) Dec 31 11:44:54 NVIDIA(0): messages and refer to Chapter 8: Common<br>
Problems in the<br>
(EE) Dec 31 11:44:54 NVIDIA(0): README for additional information.<br>
(EE) Dec 31 11:44:54 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics<br>
device!<br>
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