I have openSUSE 10.1 running on the machine currently. It's not broken
On 1/18/07, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jared Ubelhor wrote:
> I have Mint (Dapper Drake, basicly) installed on my other PC, and it's
> pretty slick. I'd like to install it on my main machine, but when X
starts I
> get no picutre.
> Doing a CTRL + ALT + F1 gives me a beautiful scramble of colors.
First, try a couple of live CDs. See if any of them configure X
correctly. If so, you know the problem's soluble. You might just
copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the live CD to external storage (pen
drive, network file server...).
Second, can you log into the broken PC at all? Boot in recovery
mode maybe? If so, then I'd try turning off X(*) and running
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
That will play "20 Questions" with you. You can test the configuration
by running startx from the console. If startx locks up, you can
probably get back with either <Ctrl>-C or <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Backspace>.
Alternately, just copy the xorg.conf that the live CD created into
/etc/X11 and reboot. It might work.
(*) How do you turn off X? See the update-rc.d(8) man page. You want
to find out whether you have xdm, kdm or gdm. Remove it using
"update-rc.d remove", then restore it later with "update-rc.d
defaults".
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
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