Screen blackout after log in

[arashiko28]

I have installed 8.10 yesterday for a friend. Everything was perfect, we updated and installed compiz fusion. Today, when she turned on her computer, it booted all right, then the loading screen and log in, she put her user name and password and logged in and after it finished loading, a tiny black square appeared, then another and another when she clicked with the mouse and so on till the whole screen is black. I have told her to check for proprietary drivers but she can't see anything, she says that her video is an Intel 945GC Express Chipset.

P.S.: I'm posting for her because she doesn't speak english.

[arashiko28]

Bump! Please help! she can boot perfectly on windows and doesn't have that problem...

[abn91c]

sudo apt-get remove compiz
sudo apt-get remove compiz-core
sorry dude no eye candy for her :-) Compiz no funciona con unas tarjetas de video intel, ve al recovery i saca compiz

[arashiko28]

she can't run terminal, she can't see a thing.

I have been twitching a bit with the xorg.conf and found that she only has one line at the device section:

: Identifier "Configured Video Device"

No driver, no option.

I know there is a bug since 8.04 that only allows to configure keyboard when typing

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
So, how do I fix this?

P.S: No dude, I'm a girl.

[Coder543]

Look

CTRL + ALT + F1
type username
type password (won't appear)

voila, you are now logged into the terminal!

type away...

[arashiko28]

We are on recovery mode about an hour ago. I'm trying to find out how to get xorg.conf configure the video section and not just the keyboard.

[arashiko28]

after removing compiz the black boxes went away. Now the big shot is to install video drivers for her card, as I said before is an Intel 945GC Express Chipset. So... any ideas?

[abn91c]

after removing compiz the black boxes went away. Now the big shot is to install video drivers for her card, as I said before is an Intel 945GC Express Chipset. So... any ideas?

in the terminal sudo aptitude reinstall xserver-xorg-video-intel
then reboot

[arashiko28]

in the terminal sudo aptitude reinstall xserver-xorg-video-intel
then reboot

Still getting one line at the device section, no driver, no option:confused:

[arashiko28]

We already ran out of ideas, I found this on another post

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-intel libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx

We tried it and it's the same. No driver output...

I'd like to thank to all of you who are trying to help.:)

[abn91c]

did you try the hardware drivers from the toolbar: system>administration>hardware drivers
if anything is listed there you can enable it, if the box is blank you have the latest driver, if you screen resolution is Ok then the intel drier is installed properly

[arashiko28]

The box is emtpy.

We still haven't found the solution.