On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 14:31 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > Antonio Montagnani wrote / ha scritto on /il 04/02/2006 11:24: > > after recent upgrades (I mean latest of yesterday), at start-up before > > the login screen, system freezes and I get an arrow on a grey screen. > > If I hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, system starts fine and any user can log > > in the usual screen, but I can see for a short time the no-graphical > > login screen with small characters. > > Furthermore while at boot I have normal characters (I do not any > > graphiccal interface at boot) when I stop the machine characters have > > become small > > Everything was o.k. until this morning when I re-booted the machine > > (no-reboot yesterday after upgrades) > > > video card is ATI9000, no problem at all with Linux: shall I need to > post any log file (which one?)? Might check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to see which driver is being used. Might have vesa driver detected and need to change it to ati or radeon. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "It's only funny until someone gets hurt...Then it's hilarious!"