| === TheLordOfTime is now known as LordOfTime|EC2 | ||
| alex57 | I updated from a fine working 12.04 LTS to 12.10 on an old computer and now I can only boot in recovery mode, startx fails. If I try to boot normally I end up with a screen that changes between black, purple and light purple. What can I do to get the GUI back ? | 04:33 |
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| Unit193 | You can try and see if nomodeset helps. | 04:34 |
| Unit193 | !nomodeset | 04:34 |
| ubottu | A common kernel (boot)parameter is nomodeset, which is needed for some graphic cards that otherwise boot into a black screen or show corrupted splash screen. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132 on how to use this parameter | 04:34 |
| alex57 | from a command prompt, how would I check nomodeset ? | 04:37 |
| holstein | alex57: you would do it from boot, as the guide suggests.. from grub | 04:38 |
| alex57 | now the tricky part is how to get to the grub menu... | 04:41 |
| holstein | alex57: tap shift at boot, and you should be able to enter it there | 04:43 |
| holstein | i usually try it from a live CD, but im a "look before you leap" kind of guy.. and i *never* do distibution upgrades, except to test the path | 04:43 |
| alex57 | i can briefly see some grub stuff but it soon changes into the list of bootable OSes on the system | 04:44 |
| holstein | alex57: you can manually edit that if needed via a live CD | 04:46 |
| holstein | alex57: you should be albe to tap shift, and see the grub menu, that allows you to follow above.. | 04:46 |
| alex57 | okay I just noticed the 'c' option in the list of OSes, and now I am at the grub prompt | 04:46 |
| alex57 | the 'e' option lets me edit an entry. SO shall I add nomodeset ? | 04:50 |
| holstein | alex57: i would read above, and enter the options exactly as stated.. i do it via live CD, so i dont know them off the top of my head, though, if you need me to look at the link Unit193 gave you, i can | 04:50 |
| Unit193 | e is it, find "nosplash" and it should go around there. Ctrl+x boots, IIRC. | 04:52 |
| alex57 | I will try from a live CD as well... | 04:55 |
| alex57 | holstein: if I do it from a live CD the setting would apply only to the liveCD session, right ? | 05:02 |
| alex57 | I edited the grub entry for Ubuntu 12.10, inserted a new line with just 'nomodeset' rebooted, but the GUI wouldn't start up. Upon rebooting again, the line that I added was missing... | 05:12 |
| Unit193 | Yes, you are editing the boot options one time, if you reboot rather than boot from there, nogo. | 05:37 |
| alex57 | If that's the case, adding nomodeset didn't seem to help. In the meantime I located my grub configuration file, according to http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/07/how-to-find-where-grub-is-installed-in-ubuntu/ and added nomodeset after quiet, however I still have the same problem: after rebooting and seeing briefly a Lubuntu 12.10 light blue screen, it starts cycling a black screen, then purple, then light purple, forever... | 05:47 |
| alex57 | How can I check if any driver is missing ? | 06:07 |
| alex57 | I am still unable to boot into a desktop manager | 07:54 |
| iccthedral | I'm having problems with the 13.04 lubuntu on two of my machines. I've installed it from Live-USB and it all goes fine, I'm in my shell, feeling comfortable, aptgetting emacs but it stops with the message that I have unmet dependencies. | 11:46 |
| iccthedral | Normally, I tried apt-get install -f, doesn't work. | 11:47 |
| iccthedral | Then I tried many weird solutions that I stumbled on the web, nothing helped at all. | 11:47 |
| iccthedral | Is anyone having similar problems? | 11:47 |
| === AlanChicken is now known as AlanBell | ||
| n-iCe | hi | 15:44 |
| malaphus | Anyone know where 13.04 keeps the lightdm theme XML? 12.10, I believe, was in /usr/share/lightdm-gtk-greeter/greeter.ui but 13.04 doesn't seem to have that | 15:54 |
| Unit193 | malaphus: That file doesn't exist in lubuntu-artwork-13.04 for lightdm, only lxdm. lightdm-gtk-greeter also doesn't have it, and locate didn't find anything with lightdm or greeter in the name other than the LXDM one. | 18:11 |
| ajnr | Hi I am not able to resize the launcher icon size after upgrading my system from 12.04 LTS to 12.10. Any one plz let me know how to do? I would like to know also that, What is the most important things I have to do after upgrading , as initially I was not able to get the unity desktop, only mouse pointer it shows. but after I install unity, it shows the desktop icon. | 19:17 |
| Unit193 | ajnr: Please don't cross post, and this isn't really the channel for Unity. | 19:19 |
| malaphus | Unit193: yeah, i discovered the same, trying to figure out how to re-theme lightdm on 13.04 heh | 22:09 |
| malaphus | can disable the language selector via the conf file in etc, id like to do some more advanced customizations though | 22:10 |
| Unit193 | theme-name=Name > /usr/share/themes/Name/gtk-3.0/apps/lightdm-gtk-greeter.css | 22:13 |
| Rarrikins | What package do I need so that lxappearance will have a Window Border tab? | 22:58 |
| Rarrikins | Never mind. Found it (lxappearance-obconf). | 22:59 |
| Unit193 | Yep, Openbox. :D | 23:00 |
| Rarrikins | How do I add Shutdown, Reboot, Suspend, and Hibernate to the lubuntu-logout application? | 23:34 |
| laperriere | any lubuntu experts out there? | 23:42 |
| === micahg_ is now known as micahg | ||
| Rarrikins | Never mind. Apparently installing policykit-1 fixes it. | 23:56 |
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