in more detail: Booting up just yields a black screen and no response from mouse or keyboard.
So I: 1.Ran a memory test to see if the memory was an issue. - The memory checked good. No help. 2.Booted to a command prompt with the aid of the Gnome recovery option. At this point I entered startx. A bunch of stuff flashed on the screen (at light speed) and I ended up back at the command prompt. When I rebooted (without gnome) , I ended up with same blank screen with unresponsive mouse and keyboard No help. 3.In the gnome recovery option, I choose dkpg (repair broken packages). This resulted in a series of messages that stated âfailed to fetch --------â. I am stuck back at the command prompt again. No help. 4.I found some stuff on Google which I tried sudo apt-get update (result: a bunch of error messages and a reply that I try get update) sudo apt-get upgrade (result: a bunch of error messages and a reply that I try get update) sudo apt-get install ubuntu desktop (result â" it built some sort of dependency tree â" then a bunch of error messages.) No help I read something about acpi=off and the F6 key. I will try that nex Thanks for your response. Justin --- In [email protected], Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@...> wrote: > > On 3/23/2012 11:54 AM, justin_e_bell2000 wrote: > > After a non-eventful install of 8.04 I boot up to a blank screen. > > > > Did you try issuing the command startx ? > > > -- > http://www.robertwittig.com/ > http://robertwittig.net/ > http://robertwittig.org/ > . > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
