Screen issue after login

[alien0101]

I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 on VirtualBox on MacOSX 10.6. It was working fine few days back. Now I am having issue. It boots fine , I can see login screen.
After entering username and password I can login. After the I can see desktop icons also. But soon after that screen goes weird . I cannot see anything on desktop. I am not sure what happened wrong. Any suggestions to resolve this.?
Screenshot is at location :http://imagebin.ca/view/WeR2_i.html

Is it possible to restore screen settings?

I dont want to reinstall as it contains important stuff and it will take lot of time to configure it again.

I am not sure what could be the reason. Is it possible that this is due to image corruption?

[cyberdork33]

when the VM is booted up, use CTRL+ALT+F1 to change to switch to a console. You can edit config files and such from there. If you have the same graphics issue when at the console, then it might just be a problem with VirtualBox or it's settings. If not, then you need to change the xorg driver.

[alien0101]

I am able to go to console and it works fine but I dont have any idea how to configure xorg driver.

Can you give some pointers?

My concern here is it works fine before login. I can see login screen and also desktop icons after logging in.
I think after logging in it initializes some new settings that causes this screen.

[cyberdork33]

I am able to go to console and it works fine but I dont have any idea how to configure xorg driver.

Can you give some pointers?

My concern here is it works fine before login. I can see login screen and also desktop icons after logging in.
I think after logging in it initializes some new settings that causes this screen.
maybe it is trying to enable the desktop effects.

edit your xorg.conf to use the fbdev driver temporarily and you should be able to get to a desktop at least.

[ronocdh]

I am able to go to console and it works fine but I dont have any idea how to configure xorg driver.

Can you give some pointers?

My concern here is it works fine before login. I can see login screen and also desktop icons after logging in.
I think after logging in it initializes some new settings that causes this screen.
The command sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg will generally set things right by auto-correcting your xorg.conf. It'll even make a backup, too, should things go wrong.

[alien0101]

Hello

I tried this and its still not working. I have attached image of xorg.conf file.

Are there any files that I can delete so that when I login again my desktop settings get restored?

Like xsession , setting specific to user , something like that.

I think this should be easy but I am not very expert.

[cyberdork33]

In the device section, add:
Driver "fbdev"

then try again.

I think the issue might be that compiz is trying to start and is not quite working correctly.

[alien0101]

I just did that

Adding Driver "fbdev" to device section of xorg.conf
and restarted but it didn't work.

This time it was not able to go to GUI mode.

Do I need to do something after adding "fbdev"

Any idea if I can disable compiz

[cyberdork33]

I just did that

Adding Driver "fbdev" to device section of xorg.conf
and restarted but it didn't work.

This time it was not able to go to GUI mode.

Do I need to do something after adding "fbdev"

Any idea if I can disable compiz
no. fbdev is the framebuffer driver. If it is not working, then vbox doesn't support it, and I don't know what to tell you.

Have you tried to install the Vm tools?

[alien0101]

Okay, I found the solution.

I deleted the .kde folder in home directory and restarted again.


Its working fine.The issue was in user profile files.:)