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

damian wrote:
Rapael Morcha wrote:

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. :)


Thanks for that Rapael, but I'm still getting the same thing.

I made the changes you suggested, but I'm still just getting a spinning
cursor over a white background. It looks almost identical to how it
looked before, but I'm sure the changes have taken effect because the
loading splash screen seemed to change into the cream background in a
slightly different way to usual (you know when something just feels
different .. it kind of flashed in a way that I knew was different).

I don't know enough about X to say for sure, but I feel like it was
loading ok both before and after changing to 'vesa'. The spinning cursor
is part of the standard loading cursor set I usually have, the
background is cream and the resolution seems right. It just doesn't get
to the log in section.

Any other ideas?

Cheers
Damian


Oops!!

My mistake!

I didn't wait long enough. The screen had poped up with the usual log in
window by the time I got back to it after writing the last email. Sorry
Rapael and thanks for your help.

How should I get Ubuntu to auto detect and set up the ATI Mobility
Radion 9200 that's in it? Maybe it found it incorrectly last time?

Cheers
Damian


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