Boots without graphical interface

Charles T. Bell cbell44 at cfl.rr.com
Thu Dec 3 05:22:17 UTC 2015



On 12/03/2015 12:14 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 12/02/2015 06:16 PM, Alan Dacey (grokit) wrote:
>>
>> Once you see the grub menu, choose Advanced options, then choose the
>> first recovery mode. After the old-timey menu appears, enable
>> networking, drop to a root shell and type in "apt-get update &&
>> apt-get dist-upgrade" without the quotes. That will make sure that
>> everything is up to date and may fix your problem. Also type in
>> "apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel" to make sure the driver is
>> installed. (Note: you are in a root shell, do NOT use sudo)
>>
> 
> Thank you Alan, Good suggestions.
> 
> The distribution upgrade didn't help unfortunately. The installation of
> the drivers failed due to dependency issues. *<]:o( Googling but not a
> lot of luck yet. I'll keep looking.
> 
> 
Did you try: apt-get -f install
?  Sometimes that will fix the dependencies issue.

Tom
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