Re: [trinity-users] TDE depends on xorg

said Michael Howard: | > in december i built a new machine, which has nvidia graphics | > instead of the previous ATI. moving the drives over went smoothly | > enough, but booting is peculiar: if i just boot from the grub2 | > screen, it goes along for a bit and then locks solid before | > getting fully booted. if, however, i choose to boot in repair | > mode, which oddly goes into framebuffer and then produces a | > normal text-based screen of choices and select "boot normally," | > it boots . . . normally. | | You don't say what OS or Version but I would take a look at the | grub command line to she exactly how it's booting. It sounds like | the original command line from your previous install. It needs | tweaking by the sounds of things. a debian-derivative -- ubuntu or kubuntu, don't remember which -- 12.04 LTS, 64-bit. and yes, i agree it needs tweaking -- just don't know the tweaks. the whole frame buffer thing is a little nutty to me. could have dealt with it in lilo, but i do not know grub or grub2 at all well.