HELP!!! Major Problem

john levin john at technolalia.org
Mon Apr 17 11:44:14 UTC 2006


Ryan Thompson wrote:
> I am writing this from windows its that bad.  I cannot get Linux to start a GUI have a sneaking suspision that my problems are from the KDE I installed a while ago.  I want to uninstall it but not sure how to go about it.  Have tried using the recovery option.  When that didn't work, I used an earlier version, even that didn't work.
> 
> If anyone can help, please do, I don't like windows...
> 

First things first. What version of Ubuntu are you using? Hoary, Breezy, 
Dapper? What's this 'earlier version' you are talking of - a kernel?
Can you log in to a terminal (ie, X isn't starting automatically)? Have 
you tried (from the terminal) 'startx'?

More info means more help!

HTH

John







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