Spinning Cursor on boot up. Log in screen doesn't display

[damian]

damian wrote:
> Rapael Morcha wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:43:15AM +0000, damian wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> The upgrade to 7.10 on my girlfriends laptop (Compaq X1000) seemed to go 
>>> fine, but suddenly I can't log in with the GUI any more. The machine boots 
>>> up and gets to the point where the log in screen is about to pop up, but it 
>>> never gets there. The spinning cursor just keeps spinning on a plain cream 
>>> background. I can Control+Alt+F2 to log in, but restarting gdm  and trying 
>>> to startx doesn't sold anything.
>>>
>>> I'm a bit of a newbie to the Linux command line so if there's much of that 
>>> then please take baby steps with me.
>>>
>>> I searched the forums and found something about dpkg-reconfigure-xxxx 
>>> (can't remember the exact line). I tried that, but still have the same 
>>> problem (and there were so many questions that I responded to without 
>>> knowing the answers that I don't even know if I've made thins worse).
>>>     
>>>       
>> try 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg', select 'vesa' as video driver and you'll be good to go. This you can say is your fallback mode. But afterwards, you can get ati/nv driver to select and get it to work. 
>>
>> Doesn't 7.10 feature, X rescue mode? It had been boasting about that for a while now. Why doesn't it work in your case? I think better file a bug for that. :)
>>   
>>     
> Thanks for that Rapael, but I'm still getting the same thing.
>
> I made the changes you suggested, but I'm still just getting a spinning 
> cursor over a white background. It looks almost identical to how it 
> looked before, but I'm sure the changes have taken effect because the 
> loading splash screen seemed to change into the cream background in a 
> slightly different way to usual (you know when something just feels 
> different .. it kind of flashed in a way that I knew was different).
>
> I don't know enough about X to say for sure, but I feel like it was 
> loading ok both before and after changing to 'vesa'. The spinning cursor 
> is part of the standard loading cursor set I usually have, the 
> background is cream and the resolution seems right. It just doesn't get 
> to the log in section.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Cheers
> Damian
>   

Oops!!

My mistake!

I didn't wait long enough. The screen had poped up with the usual log in 
window by the time I got back to it after writing the last email. Sorry 
Rapael and thanks for your help.

How should I get Ubuntu to auto detect and set up the ATI Mobility 
Radion 9200 that's in it? Maybe it found it incorrectly last time?

Cheers
Damian