Re: Spinning Cursor on boot up. Log in screen doesn't display

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:43:15AM +0000, damian wrote:
Hello all,

The upgrade to 7.10 on my girlfriends laptop (Compaq X1000) seemed to go
fine, but suddenly I can't log in with the GUI any more. The machine boots
up and gets to the point where the log in screen is about to pop up, but it
never gets there. The spinning cursor just keeps spinning on a plain cream
background. I can Control+Alt+F2 to log in, but restarting gdm and trying
to startx doesn't sold anything.

I'm a bit of a newbie to the Linux command line so if there's much of that
then please take baby steps with me.

I searched the forums and found something about dpkg-reconfigure-xxxx
(can't remember the exact line). I tried that, but still have the same
problem (and there were so many questions that I responded to without
knowing the answers that I don't even know if I've made thins worse).

try 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg', select 'vesa' as video driver and you'll be good to go. This you can say is your fallback mode. But afterwards, you can get ati/nv driver to select and get it to work.

Doesn't 7.10 feature, X rescue mode? It had been boasting about that for a while now. Why doesn't it work in your case? I think better file a bug for that. :)

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Cheers,
Raphael.

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