Jimbo wrote:
From what I have read online it appears that this is a common problem.
A fix is to update beryl which I will try with synaptic once I get to my
desktop.
Do you know how I can do that? Disable beryl from starting?
Jimbo
Simpler to use the Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7 to switch to and from
console mode. Then login and use
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
instead of synaptic.
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Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] white screen
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Jimbo wrote:
Greetings:
Had my linux installed at the installfest. Worked great at the
time. 3d acceleration was rightchous.
I now have a new problem in which I cannot go to my desktop
environment-just a white screen. It doesn give me a cursor in which
can be moved: changes to a pointed hand-link hand-when placed at
certain areas of the screen. I guess this means that the mechanics
are inplemented but everything is a wash.
Grub does its thing, loads my os, then gives me a user screen as
usual. When I try to log in as any user, including root, I wind up
with a white screen.
I might be able to muddle thru and go to the x files (funny-used to
watch this show a lot), and change a few options but this is very
challenging for my given my lvl of expertise.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Jimbo
Dear Jimbo,
I had this happen recently when I tried to install Beryl on my
ubuntu Feisty. I assumed it didn't like my cheap video card. I went to
a console (ctrl-alt-F1), uninstalled beryl and rebooted and everything
was fine. I wonder what you were doing just before the white screen?
Yours,
Chris
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