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jason.b.c
October 6th, 2008, 12:15 PM
After boot up i get a black screen with white text and a login prompt , i type my user name - then password and i wind up with the following:


<my username>@ubuntu:`$ <blinking prompt>

and still that same black over white text screen, what gives...?:confused:
ronnielsen1
October 6th, 2008, 12:21 PM
What happens when you type startx or xwin?
snowpine
October 6th, 2008, 12:22 PM
Hi Jason, try typing 'startx' (without the quotes) to start the graphical interface. This is not normal startup behavior for Fluxbuntu; when you boot up, you should see a white screen with a clock, then a graphical login screen with a white background. Do you see any of these things? Were there any error messages during the install process? What are your system specs?
jason.b.c
October 6th, 2008, 12:30 PM
What happens when you type startx or xwin?

i get Fatal Server Error - No screens found
jason.b.c
October 6th, 2008, 12:35 PM
. This is not normal startup behavior for Fluxbuntu;


I wouldn't have thought so...


when you boot up, you should see a white screen with a clock, then a graphical login screen with a white background.


none of the kind...


Do you see any of these things? Were there any error messages during the install process?


none that i could tell...



What are your system specs?


ATI Radeon 9200 64mb PCI VGA card

AMD athlon 64 (4200 i believe)

640 mb's ram

two hard drives - 40gb and an 80

:confused:
jason.b.c
October 6th, 2008, 01:06 PM
so no ideas..?
snowpine
October 6th, 2008, 01:08 PM
Well, your system specs are more than enough for Fluxbuntu. :)

Are you using the 64 bit or 32 bit release? I have never tried the 64 bit, but I've had nothing but good luck with the 32 bit. Have you checked the md5sum, burned at low speed, etc.?

You could try asking for help over at community.fluxbuntu.org, but unfortunately things are a little slow over there...
jason.b.c
October 6th, 2008, 01:19 PM
Well, your system specs are more than enough for Fluxbuntu. :)

Are you using the 64 bit or 32 bit release? I have never tried the 64 bit, but I've had nothing but good luck with the 32 bit. Have you checked the md5sum, burned at low speed, etc.?

You could try asking for help over at community.fluxbuntu.org, but unfortunately things are a little slow over there...

i am using the 32 bit version...

and burned the disk at 1x speed
snowpine
October 6th, 2008, 01:27 PM
Well I'm stumped, sorry. :(

Any particular reason you need Fluxbuntu and not, for example, Ubuntu + Fluxbox (or a more up-to-date distro like Crunchbang)?
ronnielsen1
October 6th, 2008, 02:11 PM
Sounds like it picked up on the wrong video drivers. I assume this is a boot disk. Try the vesa option when the livecd boots
ronnielsen1
October 6th, 2008, 02:12 PM
Once you have a gui I'm sure we can figure out the ati card
ronnielsen1
October 7th, 2008, 02:32 PM
Any luck?
bapoumba
October 7th, 2008, 04:48 PM
Moved to "Other OS Talk" where there might be better exposure to other fluxbuntu users.
jason.b.c
October 7th, 2008, 10:55 PM
Any luck?

none at all....

about to give up...
I-75
October 8th, 2008, 01:41 AM
I wish I had good news for you, I don't. I tried installing it into two laptops. One installed but seem to freeze at the splash screen at the 5 o clock position. I re-did the login with "nosplash and it also froze.

The other laptop, I kept getting those no screens found errors. I only wanted to use Fluxbuntu because it was said to be good for low hardware computers with 64 MB RAM.. Even with 160 MB RAM was a no go.

I ended up using Absolute Linux and DSL on those two laptops. I did some searching on the internet and there is a serious bug with the release that was never resolved.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/fluxbuntu-project/+bug/157724
snowpine
October 8th, 2008, 08:16 AM
Apparently there is a "Fluxbuntu Remaster" that attempts to solve certain boot problems. I've never tried it and can't vouch for it, but it's worth a try I suppose: https://bugs.launchpad.net/fluxbuntu-project/+bug/157724

ps I do not recommend Fluxbuntu for 64mb of ram because of this problem: http://community.fluxbuntu.org/index.php?topic=491.msg2082

I posted the issue both here and on the Fluxbuntu forums back in July, and haven't had a single answer, so if anyone knows how to fix this, I'd be much obliged. :)

To the OP, frankly if you are having this much trouble with Fluxbuntu, I think you'll be better off with another distro that is still receiving bug fixes and support. Fluxbuntu is very much a "do-it-yourself" project at this point.

ps Just to clarify I-75's "there is a serious bug with the release" statement, Fluxbuntu 7.10 is a release candidate; it does not claim to be bug-free. :)