emshains
October 29th, 2008, 09:23 PM
I had to install the real-time kernel, because I was curious about the ubuntu-studio packages. Since there is no greater power than curiosity about things in apt in my life, I installed it, and came across a chain-reaction of problems.
My specs:
Sempron 2400+ 1.6ghz 133mhz FSB
Nvidia 7300GT, 256mb AGP8x
768mb of ram
Silicon integrated Systems motherboard of which I have absolutely no info or what-so-ever.
My story goes like this: I wanted to check the Ubuntustudio, so I installed their packages, with whom the linux-rt package came along. After that I rebooted, and Woo-Hoo, neither the sound editing works, nor did I cared about anything else, because now my faulty wi-fi card (the realtek chipset), which I had a script for to get it working, started to act weird. I could connect to my AP, but about an hour later, the connection was dead, killing the connection and then rerunning the script didn't work, so now I wanted to get back to my old friend, the i386. And all I did was just a little "sudo apt-get remove linux-rt". After it had removed the ~52kb of kernel, I rebooted. To check if this had worked, didn't boot right into my system, but I checked the boot menu. And you've guessed it, the real-time kernel was still there. So, obviousley, I thought, maybe you can't delete a kernel when you are running on it. So I booted in my usual kernel. Then it booted up to the point where it starts X. And now it panics, because it can't run X and gives a reason for it- bad X server configuration. Since I didn't think that the configuration is to blame, because I don't really mess around the config files of X, I immediately thought that something was wrong with my drivers for the 7300gt. The next thing I checked was the google, and came across a very similar problem(the link ---> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=586827, but only upgrading to a real-time kernel. ( I don't actually think about it as an upgrade now.) It said it had problems with running X because of the nvidia drivers, there were 2 cards specified, the 7200 and the 7600, so I thought this was too similar to cross out. It said it fixed it, by running 2 commands. Now, when I try to into the command line, when I boot the normal kernel, it asks for my username and password, and then, I think, it crashes, just freezes with myusername@mycomputer:~$, and there is nothing I can do but the almighty restart button. I haven't tried the recovery mode though, its something I will probably do tomorrow, because I have to hit level 70 till November 13th.
I apologize for:
1. My english
2. Any lack of info
3. My addiction to World of Warcraft.
I hope you will understand what I wrote and try to help. Any help will be apreciated.
My specs:
Sempron 2400+ 1.6ghz 133mhz FSB
Nvidia 7300GT, 256mb AGP8x
768mb of ram
Silicon integrated Systems motherboard of which I have absolutely no info or what-so-ever.
My story goes like this: I wanted to check the Ubuntustudio, so I installed their packages, with whom the linux-rt package came along. After that I rebooted, and Woo-Hoo, neither the sound editing works, nor did I cared about anything else, because now my faulty wi-fi card (the realtek chipset), which I had a script for to get it working, started to act weird. I could connect to my AP, but about an hour later, the connection was dead, killing the connection and then rerunning the script didn't work, so now I wanted to get back to my old friend, the i386. And all I did was just a little "sudo apt-get remove linux-rt". After it had removed the ~52kb of kernel, I rebooted. To check if this had worked, didn't boot right into my system, but I checked the boot menu. And you've guessed it, the real-time kernel was still there. So, obviousley, I thought, maybe you can't delete a kernel when you are running on it. So I booted in my usual kernel. Then it booted up to the point where it starts X. And now it panics, because it can't run X and gives a reason for it- bad X server configuration. Since I didn't think that the configuration is to blame, because I don't really mess around the config files of X, I immediately thought that something was wrong with my drivers for the 7300gt. The next thing I checked was the google, and came across a very similar problem(the link ---> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=586827, but only upgrading to a real-time kernel. ( I don't actually think about it as an upgrade now.) It said it had problems with running X because of the nvidia drivers, there were 2 cards specified, the 7200 and the 7600, so I thought this was too similar to cross out. It said it fixed it, by running 2 commands. Now, when I try to into the command line, when I boot the normal kernel, it asks for my username and password, and then, I think, it crashes, just freezes with myusername@mycomputer:~$, and there is nothing I can do but the almighty restart button. I haven't tried the recovery mode though, its something I will probably do tomorrow, because I have to hit level 70 till November 13th.
I apologize for:
1. My english
2. Any lack of info
3. My addiction to World of Warcraft.
I hope you will understand what I wrote and try to help. Any help will be apreciated.