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    After graphics upgrade, KDE won't start.

    Hi Guys,

    I have a Gateway Laptop with Intel graphics and am running 9.04. After looking at many websites for a fix for my graphics problems i been getting upgrades from a ppa.launchpad site. I just received an update to the intel graphics this morning (i think its doing Intel 2.7.99 or something like that). After the upgrade it prompted me to restart. Upon restarting, the boot spash went fine, but afterward the screen got all jumbled and it brought me to a login screen that was plain text:

    Ubuntu 9.04 Gateway-Laptop tty2

    Gateway-Laptop login:

    If i start typing things in, it resets the screen to the same thing above. I don't know what to do. Is there a way i can repair under the recovery option or i can backtrack to my previous state? Please Help!

    I still consider myself a Linux newbie.
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    Re: After graphics upgrade, KDE won't start.

    Yes, please reboot in rescue mode and see if you can fix graphics, if not, we'll go from there
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      Re: After graphics upgrade, KDE won't start.

      How would i go about doing that? I know how to get into the recovery mode but i don't know what commands to type to backtrack the graphics. Would i also need to be connected to the internet to do this or could i do something with the live CD?
      If you could walk me through the commands, i can go from there. Thanks
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        Re: After graphics upgrade, KDE won't start.

        Originally posted by djg9282
        Hi Guys,

        I have a Gateway Laptop with Intel graphics and am running 9.04. After looking at many websites for a fix for my graphics problems i been getting upgrades from a ppa.launchpad site. I just received an update to the intel graphics this morning (i think its doing Intel 2.7.99 or something like that). After the upgrade it prompted me to restart. Upon restarting, the boot spash went fine, but afterward the screen got all jumbled and it brought me to a login screen that was plain text:

        Ubuntu 9.04 Gateway-Laptop tty2

        Gateway-Laptop login:

        If i start typing things in, it resets the screen to the same thing above. I don't know what to do. Is there a way i can repair under the recovery option or i can backtrack to my previous state? Please Help!

        I still consider myself a Linux newbie.
        Does your laptop load a LiveCD of Ubuntu or Kubuntu? I mean, does it load without any video trouble? If so, then you can easily (I am going out on a limb saying that, eh?!? lol!) trick it!!! Stick in the live cd and then go to your xorg.conf file and take a long look at what is there. Then copy/paste the text (this is what ever the LiveCD loads according to your laptop's graphics - whatever it detects and decides to load) to your email (providing you can get online with the LiveCD). Then boot up your actual laptop install of Ubuntu and edit your actual xorg.conf (you need to be root so sudo or find out how to do this) and swap that with the text that you emailed to yourself. So, you are deleting the xorg.conf text that is not working for you and replacing it with the LiveCD's xorg.conf text. You would then be back at square one when you first installed as far as your video graphics configuration goes.

        If you are still at a state in which KDE won't load, you could become root while using the LiveCD and copy/paste the xorg.conf of the LiveCD and then edit your hard drive's (i.e. Ubuntu install's) xorg.conf with the LiveCD xorg.conf text by becoming root and changing it to your installed xorg.conf. That should allow you to boot up KDE on your Ubuntu install but you would be back at square one. Hey, if it allows you to boot KDE, you probably don't mind that. Right?

        This should work and I have done this numerous times with other distros including Kubuntu when trying to install the latest Nvidia driver.

        But, here's my disclaimer: I can't be blamed or responsible for any video issues or problems if it doesn't work out. Hehe... Sorry, just kidding. Someone else could probably explain it better or who has a better grasp of xorg and X.

        However, I am sure most will understand the concept I'm suggesting.

        It's just an idea, anyway.
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          Re: After graphics upgrade, KDE won't start.

          Originally posted by djg9282
          How would i go about doing that? I know how to get into the recovery mode but i don't know what commands to type to backtrack the graphics. Would i also need to be connected to the internet to do this or could i do something with the live CD?
          If you could walk me through the commands, i can go from there. Thanks
          IN rescue mode, let it work until it stops and shows you a bunch of options, one is to repair graphics, you just do [enter]. No need to do anything yourself, and no need to have internet at that point. Then you can reboot (or just resume the boot). Hopefully that does it.
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            Re: After graphics upgrade, KDE won't start.

            Hey, I didn't realize that was a function that was included in the LiveCD!

            Sounds like the best option to try or the one to try first. I'm just speculating but I am guessing it does what I presented as a manual 'graphics fix.'
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              Re: After graphics upgrade, KDE won't start.

              Ah, yeah, I think it is running dpkg --reconfigure -phigh for Xorg
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