[SOLVED] not working all of a sudden ( startx problem )

[terrordrone]

i shutdown my laptop..
the next day, i tried booting it. it loads everything and suddenly instead of the kdm showing up, i get the command line
i logged in and ran startx.. but it gives me an error and returns to the command line
please help me out

also how do i capture the output for startx? so that i can put it up here

[dibl]

Re: not working all of a sudden ( startx problem )

Was there a kernel update or something, the last time you were using it? It sounds like your video driver isn't working, which is normal if it is a proprietary driver, after a kernel upgrade.

To configure a VESA display, for the interim, boot in "recovery" mode, which will take you to a root user prompt "#", and do the following:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

This runs a video configuration script. On the first screen you probably need to answer "NO" to autodetect, and on the second screen choose "vesa" as the display type. Answer the rest of the script questions as best you can -- defaults are normally fine for the keyboard and mouse questions (you don't need to autodetect your keyboard, normally). When the script finishes, it will dump you back to the command line. Since you're still root, you should probably just shut down and restart, with

shutdown now -r

and then try again with your normal user login procedure.

[terrordrone]

Re: not working all of a sudden ( startx problem )

before i do anything that you have told me, thought ill put in this

if i try to do a normal boot,
i get the following message after which im given a command line to login .. etc

starting up ...
Loading, please wait...
kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/....) = sda(8,8)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/....(same as above)
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...

Ubuntu 7.10 MyLaptop tty1

MyLaptop login : _

[dibl]

Re: not working all of a sudden ( startx problem )

Yep, that all looks normal. Go ahead with the instruction I gave and see if that gets you going.

[terrordrone]

Re: not working all of a sudden ( startx problem )

i did what u said in your earlier post
man it works..
ur GOD

all hail dibl

thanks

[dibl]

Re: not working all of a sudden ( startx problem )

ur GOD

Now YOU are the God of YOUR PC!

[terrordrone]

Re: not working all of a sudden ( startx problem )

haha

how do i set the status of this thread to solved?

how long have you been using linux... u seem to know everything

[dibl]

Re: not working all of a sudden ( startx problem )

Thanks for the compliment, but ... I may know 15% of it, after a couple of years.

Open your original post with "modify", then just add "SOLVED" at the front of your title.

Thanks!

[terrordrone]

Re: [SOLVED] not working all of a sudden ( startx problem )

thought id do that.. but before i clicked on save.. i thought there must be some other way than this..
anyways.. thanks again