Re: [trinity-users] TDE depends on xorg

said Curt Howland: | That is how I would do it, in order to ensure that any hardware issues | were resolved before putting TDE on the machine. I would not want to | have anything where I could mistake TDE for causing the error, where | it was actually an issue of graphics compatibility or such. while we're at it . . . 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.

i suppose i could look upon this as a security feature, but i'd just as soon fix it. there seems to be a lot of silliness that gets loaded up front, such as the framebuffer stuff, for reasons not at all apparent to me. ideally, i would have a nice, no-frame-buffer boot, all in text, all printed to the screen in nice, pure text mode, until the time comes for the starting of X. indeed, if after logging in i had to type startx as in the old days, that would be fine. but at this point i would settle for a working default boot. any ideas?