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andrewwg94
October 31st, 2008, 03:58 AM
everything works ok except one little thing, I can't get my desktop to load! I tried the live cd, wubi, and a traditional install, nothing works. After I log on, i get a black screen with a mouse in the middle. please help! i have no idea.

martrn
October 31st, 2008, 05:30 AM
Do you fully see the login prompt via x11 ?

Try logging in to a terminal (or booting up in rescue mode) and type:


sudo apt-get remove compiz
sudo apt-get remove compiz-core

See if there is anything starting up that will cause a problem


sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
sudo sysv-rc-conf
and remove any unecessary services.

If you think you might have some problems with X11 try:

dpkg-reconfigure x-server x-org

Err there might be other things.

andrewwg94
November 1st, 2008, 02:20 AM
Do you fully see the login prompt via x11 ?

Try logging in to a terminal (or booting up in rescue mode) and type:


sudo apt-get remove compiz
sudo apt-get remove compiz-core

See if there is anything starting up that will cause a problem


sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
sudo sysv-rc-conf
and remove any unecessary services.

If you think you might have some problems with X11 try:

dpkg-reconfigure x-server x-org

Err there might be other things.

Thank you very much it worked, but could you explain what exactly those commands did?

martrn
November 1st, 2008, 03:41 AM
Thank you very much it worked, but could you explain what exactly those commands did?

Err I can try :



Try logging in to a terminal (or booting up in rescue mode) and type:

sudo apt-get remove compiz
sudo apt-get remove compiz-core

See if there is anything starting up that will cause a problem


Compiz is a plug in for the windows manager that provides illusion-ary 3D effects such as spinning cubes, fading Xwindows, wobbly effects and other 3D illusionary effects for the gnome desktop.

Sudo runs a program as root and "apt-get remove compiz" removes this package which can cause problems or lockups in the 3D card or the X11 windowing system.



sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
sudo sysv-rc-conf[/CODE]
and remove any unecessary services.


Everything on linux is a file and in your /etc/init.d/ directory you will have a bunch of init scripts that will run on boot. Sudo will run a program as root and "sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf" installs a package called sysv-rc-conf. When you run sysv-rc-conf (as root) you will be able to modify your /etx/init.d/ directory in a structured way. Removing advanced power modules and screen saver effects can stop X11 or Xorg from crashing sometimes.

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89491 for more info.




If you think you might have some problems with X11 try:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure x-server x-org
Err there might be other things.

Everything in linux is a file (no registry). Running the command "dpkg-reconfigure x-server x-org" reconfigure you X11 windowing system to provide a valid /etc/X11/xorg.conf which is required by the XOrg foundation - http://www.x.org/wiki/. Ubuntu sometimes shreds or produces an invalid Xorg file with BulletProofX. So running this will produce a valid one and sometimes kick xorg into play.

Err thats all.