Comment 0 for bug 554023

Binary package hint: gdm

using the LiveCD of Wednesday 3/31/2010, Thursday's or Friday's, the machine does not display anything.
The screen goes blank/black.
Similar, if machine that was working, is updated with the lastest and greatest packages. The grub menu
comes up, then monitor goes blank/black.

In the latter case, I can still ssh to the machine.
This was in the /var/log/syslog, but not sure if it has any meaning:

Apr 2 11:12:52 bee60 acpid: client 1784[0:0] has disconnected
Apr 2 11:12:52 bee60 acpid: client connected from 1958[0:0]
Apr 2 11:12:52 bee60 acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Apr 2 11:12:52 bee60 gdm-binary[875]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.269835 seconds
Apr 2 11:12:52 bee60 gdm-simple-slave[2107]: WARNING: Unable to load file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory
Apr 2 11:12:52 bee60 acpid: client 1958[0:0] has disconnected
Apr 2 11:12:52 bee60 acpid: client connected from 2114[0:0]
Apr 2 11:12:52 bee60 acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Apr 2 11:12:53 bee60 gdm-binary[875]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.291561 seconds
Apr 2 11:12:53 bee60 gdm-binary[875]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors
Apr 2 11:12:53 bee60 init: gdm main process (875) terminated with status 1
Apr 2 11:12:53 bee60 acpid: client 2114[0:0] has disconnected
Apr 2 11:12:53 bee60 acpid: client connected from 2137[0:0]