<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, > > I am running Kubuntu 6.06 Edgy on the K7 Kernel. I just recently > upgraded to Edgy from Dapper, and for the most part, it has worked > fine. But for some reason, I can't get into the GUI anymore. All it > will do is boot into what looks like recovery mode and the terminal. I > tried every kernel I have installed, and the same thing happens with > all of them. > > I have no idea what to do. All I was doing was switching the video > card driver with a different one, since I suspect I had the wrong one. > I didn't stop x.org though, because I couldn't figgure out how, and I > did it wothout doing so before. Then suddenly my GUI went away, and > just went to this screen where there was a blinking cursor, but > nothing was there, and it wasn't doing anything, so I shut it down by > pushing the power button. I should have done Ctrl + Alt + F1, but I > didn't think of it. > > It showed the shuting down screen like it usually does when I shut > down. When I booted back up, I selected the K7 Kernel like I usually > did, but after the normal loading screen, it went into the terminal > like it does in recovery mode. So I rebooted, thinking I pressed > recovery mode by accident. But I noticed that it used the progress bar > durring the loading screen. When I booted back up, I made sure to > select the normal kernel, and it did the same thing. I rebooted again, > and tried the recovery mode, but that did the same thing, except that > it didn't show the progress bar. I tried the 386 kernel, but that did > the same thing. > > I also tried other things, including running "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm > start" but I got a message saying the K desktop manager was already > running. I also tried Ctrl + Alt + F7, but that just broght me back to > the blank screen with the cusror. I tried to reconfigure the XServer > with "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", but that didn't help. I > think there is something wrong with xorg.conf, but I don't think that > reconfiguring the XServer is fixing it, since it gives me a message > saying that it overwrote xorg.conf. I have read in many places that > reconfiguring it fixes it, but it doesn't. > > I have no idea what to do, so I am asking for help. Is this a bug in > Edgy mabye? > > I would really appreciate any help on this. Thanks a lot! </pre> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> Thanks all for the help and quick replies, I really appreciate it. After reading the log at /usr/var/Xorg.o.log, I determined that it simply wasn't loading my video card driver because it was for the wrong version of xorg. It was compiled for 6.9, but I had 7.1. So I extracted the driver (I had downloaded it previously), and copied it over the other driver, rebooted, and it worked. :-) <div class="moz-signature">-- ______________________________________________ -Matt Modica E-mail: <a href="mailto:matt.modica@comcast.net">matt.modica@comcast.net</a> Webpage: <a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Ematt.modica/">http://home.comcast.net/~matt.modica/</a> <a href="http://fnystf.fortunecity.com/">http://fnystf.fortunecity.com/</a> <img src="cid:part1.07060706.09070601@comcast.net"></div> </body> </html>