Hi

I'm hoping someone can help me. I have just had my computer in storage for 4 months. yesterday when i fired it up it asked for username then password which I entered. Normaly it would then go into the Linux system. But what came up yesterday was a promt:

jerry@jerry`$

Does anybody know what I should type in to get it working??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

you should type startx which will most likely fail but at least you should get some indications of why.

jerry seems to have a case of the X blues, also try to pull up the last kernel update and boot in to that. dont know what grub you have but bang at the keyboard

you should type startx which will most likely fail but at least you should get some indications of why.

Ok guys

I typed in 'startx' and this is what I got:

(==)logfile:"/var/log/xorg.0.log"

(==)using config file: "/etc/x11/xorg.conf"

(==)using config directory "/usr/lib/x11/xorg.config.d"

(EE) VESA:kernal modesetting driverin use, refusing to load.

(EE) no devices detected

So does this mean that my computer is fried???

Any help greatly appreciated.

certainly not fried. try this:

sudo mv /etc/x11/xorg.conf{,.bak}

and reboot with:

sudo shutdown -r now

BTW there is a typo in there. It's/etc/X11/ with a capital X, change that in the command I have posted.

BTW there is a typo in there. It's/etc/X11/ with a capital X, change that in the command I have posted.

Hi Urandom

I tried what you said but the computer just kept coming back with the login prompt. It did however say this above it:

* (orange star) Speech-dispatcher configured for user sessions landscape-client is not configured, please run landscape config.

* startining common unix printing system: cupsd

* (orange star) pulse audio configured for per user sessions

* enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt - support

* checking battery state.....

jerry@jerry`$

I am no computer genius soany help would be greatly appreciated.

can you please paste the output of:

ls /etc/X11/

just to be sure you backed up the file properly. please be careful as this is case sensitive, x is not the same as X.

also, please do the following:

sudo apt-get install wgetpaste

wgetpaste /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and please paste the resulting link here.

again, this is case sensitive and please do not mix O and 0. One way to be sure you're not mistyping is to use the [TAB] key. It will autocomplete the command/file/directory name for you. for example:

ls /etc/ [Press TAB] [Press TAB] will list all the possibilities

ls /etc/X [Press TAB] will autocomplete the path to /etc/X11/