<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Alex Armani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex.armani@rocketmail.com" target="_blank">alex.armani@rocketmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span>Hi folks, happy new year to one and all. I've got a couple of issues that I need help with with my 'buntu installation.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:10.666666984558105px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:10.666666984558105px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">1. Can only log in as guest, and need to remove the propriety drivers. I was having issues with my external monitor only going up to 1024 * 768 whereas get 1280 * 1024 on the Windows 7, so I tried the propriety drivers, but then it
wouldn't boot at all. So I can ctrl alt f2 and enter passord so can get root shell. So I need a CLI command to remove the propriety drivers, and need to sort the password issues out. I had this prob before but managed to fix it put cannot remember how. So I can get root shell, just can't login and change any settings and don't really wanna go the create new user root etc Running Gnome 3</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>you can get a "root shell" at login, from the grub menu, which, if hidden, can be shown by pressing shift at boot.. <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/150367/how-do-i-boot-into-recovery-mode">http://askubuntu.com/questions/150367/how-do-i-boot-into-recovery-mode</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>you likely dont have a password issue at all, but, an issue in your user's config that you have broken, and its causing the session not to load, and *appearing* as a bad password. you can test the user password in a tty..</div>
<div><div>"To get to the TTY terminals 1-6, use the keystroke ctrl + alt + F1-F6 respectively (Alt+F7 will get you back to your graphical login)."</div></div><div>..if you are able to login with your username and password there, then you have no password issues, and it is in fact something broken in your user config, likely from setting up gnome3, or trying to. you can then move on to removing whatever it is in the user's /home that is causing the issues.. what do i usually do in this scenario? well, there really is no reason to just delete things til im sure they are problematic. i will usually move the ~/.config directories and all contents out of the user's /home and test login again. if all is well, and im not missing anything major, i'll just leave it alone.. if im missing something i want, i'll put it back and test (and repeat if necessary).</div>
<div>as for the proprietary driver issue, i would look from a live CD or the recovery console, or TTY for an /etc/X11/xorg.conf that may have been put in place. otherwise, you are not sharing enough information to get help with that, and you are not specifically asking for help with that. i would need to know the graphics chip and exactly what you tried to do and exactly how and what you have done since then. i would want to know about any tty's, etc...</div>
<div><br></div><div>the resolution and support on the windows side is irrelevant. the graphics card vendor is supplying you in windows that support, and they are always welcome and encouraged to supply you with the same support in linux. </div>
<div><br></div><div>it may be more constructive to come here *before* trying *anything* and start with something like, "how do i increase the resolution of my external monitor connected on this specific brand machine with this specific brand graphics?", in which we can discuss what graphics driver may or may not help with that, or what custom xorg.conf may or may not help.. or, in fact, how it may or may not be easily possible to do so. </div>
<div><br></div><div>i find it helpful to keep (when im learning an operating system that the vendor has not explicitly promised support for) a smallish partition mirroring the os i have installed. i test things there before doing it on my production machine. i'll just test normal upgrades there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers and good luck!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:10.666666984558105px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">aha, tia from Alex.</div>
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