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boot problem

Asked by Milan Singha

I have dual boot of Ubuntu 7.10 with XP. When I start Ubuntu the welcome screen sometimes appears and some times not. It just restarts the computer. Some times nothing appears on the screen. But internally it starts(it plays the login music yet the screen is black). If I restart the computer at this stage filesystem error occurs. What to do ?

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Hendrick Musche (hmu) said : 		#1

Can you give some more information on your system? Most importantly, which kind of graphic card do you have?

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

Hello

Please try to press CTRL+ALT+"+" and/or CTRL+ALT+"-" to dynamically change video frequency
or press CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE to restart graphics layer.

Reconfiguring your xserver-xorg may help you.

A) If you can view graphics Gnome desktop

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal
and jump to step C

B) If you cannot view graphics Gnome desktop

Please press CTRL+ALT+F2 and make login with your user and password
and go on to step C

C)

To make a backup copy of your actual /etc/X11/xorg.conf type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then try to reconfigure your xserver-xorg

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

answer to the simple questions, then restart the pc.

If something goes wrong you can restore the saved copy of your old configuration, open a terminal or login to a virtual terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 and type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf.bak xorg.conf

and restart the pc, type:

sudo reboot

Hope it helps

Bhavani Shankar.

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