problems booting on inspiron 1100

[kaiguy57]

I managed to install everything fine, and even fixed the well-known issue of the screen resolution being stuck in 640x480, but now it won't boot up into the login screen. I've only gotten to the login screen one time. Every time since then, it does the following:

The computer says "Loading, please wait." then goes black. After a while, the cursor comes up over the black background and I can move it. Then, the cursor whites out in a box for about a second, the screen turns off for a second, and then turns back on and is stuck on a blank, black screen for eternity.

Any suggestions?

Running on an inspiron 1100 laptop

[Rog131]

Re: problems booting on inspiron 1100

Can you start virtual console: press Ctrl + Alt + F1 (or F2...6).

From Virtual console
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console

a virtual console (VC, sometimes virtual terminal, VT) is a conceptual combination of the keyboard and the display for a user interface. The concrete combination is the system console of the computer, where the user can switch between the virtual consoles to access multiple unrelated user interfaces. Usually in Linux, the first six virtual consoles provide a text terminal with a login prompt to a unix shell. The graphical X Window System starts in the seventh virtual console.

If you get in at text mode:

a)
Check xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log)
Is there errors ?

You could:

nano /var/log/Xorg.0.log

"nano is a small, free and friendly editor" works in the text mode.

b)
You could try to reconfigure xserver:

- New xorg.conf with default options

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

- You know something about hardware

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Links:
Topic: HOWTO : Disaster Recovery and xorg.conf
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3082808.0