Mikeyp926
November 18th, 2008, 11:42 PM
Hi everyone,
I've been using 8.04 without any major problems for a few months now and really enjoying it. A few days ago I decided to upgrade to 8.10. I did this through the recommended "network" upgrade. Everything seemed to go smoothly, and there were not any errors during the installation. My pc rebooted fine and grub worked normally. I selected the newest kernel, and the loading screen with the orange bar worked fine as well. However, once that was complete instead of seeing a login screen I was faced with a black screen and a login prompt on a command line. I can login fine, but no matter what I do I can't get any type of graphical interface.
I've spent the last couple of days looking stuff up online and trying to figure out what to do, but still no luck. Any help/advice/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Whenever I try to run "startx" from the cm, I get "(EE) No devices detected" When I look in the log file, there are two lines listing both my video cards and saying something like "two possible primary devices" or something like that.
I've read some stuff online about changing the xorg.conf file, and have tried a few suggestions but they have all failed.
When I run "lspci" both of my video cards show up correctly and are identified correctly.
My system info,
Athlon 3800 x2 dual core, 2 gigs of ram, 2 nvidia 7600 vid cards. I have been triple booting with xp, vista, and ubuntu, and that has all been working fine. 8.04 ran without a problem, so I don't think it's an issue with my setup. Also, I think i'm using the 177 nvidia drivers, but i've tried using other ones but they haven't worked either.
Alright, thanks again for reading and for your help! Is there any more information you guys need?
Thanks!
Michael
I've been using 8.04 without any major problems for a few months now and really enjoying it. A few days ago I decided to upgrade to 8.10. I did this through the recommended "network" upgrade. Everything seemed to go smoothly, and there were not any errors during the installation. My pc rebooted fine and grub worked normally. I selected the newest kernel, and the loading screen with the orange bar worked fine as well. However, once that was complete instead of seeing a login screen I was faced with a black screen and a login prompt on a command line. I can login fine, but no matter what I do I can't get any type of graphical interface.
I've spent the last couple of days looking stuff up online and trying to figure out what to do, but still no luck. Any help/advice/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Whenever I try to run "startx" from the cm, I get "(EE) No devices detected" When I look in the log file, there are two lines listing both my video cards and saying something like "two possible primary devices" or something like that.
I've read some stuff online about changing the xorg.conf file, and have tried a few suggestions but they have all failed.
When I run "lspci" both of my video cards show up correctly and are identified correctly.
My system info,
Athlon 3800 x2 dual core, 2 gigs of ram, 2 nvidia 7600 vid cards. I have been triple booting with xp, vista, and ubuntu, and that has all been working fine. 8.04 ran without a problem, so I don't think it's an issue with my setup. Also, I think i'm using the 177 nvidia drivers, but i've tried using other ones but they haven't worked either.
Alright, thanks again for reading and for your help! Is there any more information you guys need?
Thanks!
Michael