[Ardour-Users] Can anyone help with a Linux problem ?
John Emmas
johne53 at tiscali.co.uk
Thu May 28 11:53:02 PDT 2009
Thanks Mark,
Sadly I don't have the luxury of being able to change my graphics card
because this is an onboard chip, built into my laptop.... :-(
However,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Knecht"
>
> Discard all the hidden .Xauthority files in your user account and try
> again?
>
In fact here was only one so I renamed it and rebooted. No difference
unfortunately. I discovered that this procedure would get rid of the error
dialog saying, "I've detected a panel already running" etc:-
1) Use CTRL+ALT+F1 to escape back to a terminal
2) Log in as myself
3) sudo killall gnome-panel
4) sudo killall gdm
5) startx
The above starts X without the error dialog- but I still only get the blank
white screen. Given that X starts successfully if I log in as root, I'm
starting to wonder if this is a permissions problem. Maybe there's a file
somewhere whose permissions got changed when I upgraded. And now it can be
opened by root but not by me. Does that seem plausible?
John
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