Well, I think I stole enough of your time already. Maybe I should study the manuals myself, you gave me a lot of suggestions to think about. After all, one can live with additional five seconds to login. Maybe better that employing two nice people for a whole day with stupid problems. Thank's again and take care!
On 21 nov, 18:11, ticktick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Christopher, hi Icebreaker, > > After pressing the power button and the BIOS screen, linux offers me a > list of versions and starts off itself after 3 seconds or so. Then a > Kubuntu logo appears with a couple of processes underneath. And then > it returns to a plain shell screen where finally the login prompt > appears. I think I saw running messages > scripts/init/premount > scripts/local-premount > or something similar. It all runs too fast to fix it on paper. > > Once all that has started so far and I press Ctrl+Alt+F1,F2,... it > does the same in each case with only changing TTY1,...,TTY6. This is > from F1 to F6. F7 doesn't do anything and F8 returns a plain screen > with messages > Checking battery state .... > Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation ... > And F9 to F12 doesn't do anything. > > On 21 Nov., 17:28, "Christopher Stamper" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:15 AM, ticktick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > Hi Icebreaker, > > > You recommended to add > > > DISPLAY=:0.0 > > > to my .bashrc and I did that. > > > But when I asked KDE to shutdown, it ended up with the shell and I had > > > to > > > sudo halt > > > myself. And when I pushed the power button again after shutdown, it > > > started with the shell again and I still had to > > > startx > > > again. > > > What is this DISPLAY anyway? > > > Try this: > > > -Reboot > > -At the terminal, press (left) Ctrl+Alt+F1. Do this through all the F keys, > > and see if you find a virtual-terminal that has a X server running. If not, > > just Ctrl+Alt back to F1. > > > And be sure to post whatever stuff Icebreaker wants. > > > -- > > Christopher Stamper > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Web:http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg > > gTalk:http://tinyurl.com/6e359r > > Skype: cdstamper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
