Title: Ubuntu Desktop Becomes Ubuntu CLI Only After Rebooting? Post by: gigabytecoin on April 21, 2011, 08:23:52 PM Anybody else notice this?
After following the instructions here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3356.msg47489#msg47489 and re-booting my computer... I am asked to enter the username and password via a command line interface and no ubuntu desktop is ever shown. I have a feeling it has something to do with the fact that we are removing video drivers in the beginning of the tutorial maybe? Third time I will be re-installing ubuntu now because of it. I suspect it might have something to do with automatic upgrades as well? Any harm in turning automatic upgrades off completely? Title: Re: Ubuntu Desktop Becomes Ubuntu CLI Only After Rebooting? Post by: marcus_of_augustus on April 21, 2011, 11:57:44 PM More than likely your Xorg configuration file is not being generated correctly causing the Xserver to crash on start-up and then sends you into CLI on next boot ...?
... you can display it's contents from the command line with a $less /etc/X11/xorg.conf it gets changed when you do the $sudo aticonfig --initial --adapter=all make sure you do this in a newly opened terminal or the environment variables may not be correct .... also if you have only 1 GPU in your set-up do only the $sudo aticonfig --initial Title: Re: Ubuntu Desktop Becomes Ubuntu CLI Only After Rebooting? Post by: gigabytecoin on April 22, 2011, 07:25:20 PM More than likely your Xorg configuration file is not being generated correctly causing the Xserver to crash on start-up and then sends you into CLI on next boot ...? ... you can display it's contents from the command line with a $less /etc/X11/xorg.conf it gets changed when you do the $sudo aticonfig --initial --adapter=all make sure you do this in a newly opened terminal or the environment variables may not be correct .... also if you have only 1 GPU in your set-up do only the $sudo aticonfig --initial Thanks for that MOA. Not sure if the problem is caused because I re-arranged the cards after updating or because I updated the operating system. I have a 5870 and a 5970 plugged into the machine in question. Just recently moved PCIe slots for the 5970 though. Should I maybe add sudo aticonfig --initial --adapter=all to my .bashrc file??? And what is the harm in adding --adapter=all to a command when/if I only have 1 GPU? Title: Re: Ubuntu Desktop Becomes Ubuntu CLI Only After Rebooting? Post by: gigabytecoin on April 22, 2011, 09:01:03 PM Ok so I logged into the Command Line version of ubuntu 10.10 and re-entered sudo aticonfig --initial --adapter=all
No errors were shown, and upon re-booting I am met with the exact same all black screen. It does look as though something is (quickly) trying to start twice and then forcing me into the black console screen. |