I (foolishly) updated my graphics card drivers when nothing was wrong with the previous version. I have a Radeon X800XT gfx card. I had trouble getting xwindows to run after my inital installation of ubuntu but eventually got everything running. I thought that if I updated the drivers my system performance would improve, instead I am facing with x windows not starting at all.

I ran the installation program that I downloaded to install the new drivers, then ran the "aticonfig" command after the installation to set up everything up. After this when I rebooted my system my login screen was tet only, but I could start X Windows by running "startx".

I googled about this problem and followed someones soluion which recommended running "dkpg-reconfigure x-server" this now results in me being met by an errot when running "startx"

The error is as follows:

XIO: fatal IO error 104 )Connection reste by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Im at an utter loss now and any guidance is very much appreciated

Thanks in advance!!!

Take a look at your /var/log/xorg.0.log log file. There may be better information on the cause of the problem there.

Ive sorted the error preventing me loading X, it was down to thye wrong driver in my conf file. I can now start X by running startx, but I still cant get it to load on boot up and am still met with the termianl log on screen as opposed to the graphical one. Does anyone know how to load X on boot?

If you are running ubuntu and not kubuntu, gdm is what does that for you. Either somehow it got uninstalled, or is not running at startup anymore. First make sure it is indeed install (apt-get install gdm) and possible dpkg-reconfigure gdm. If that doesnt do it verify that you have an /etc/init.d/gdm file, and that /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc3.d have symlinks to it within them. (I say both bc I dont know which ubuntu uses at the default run level, most distros used 3, but debian has been odd in the past and used 2).

Gdm wasn't installed, I reinstalled it and it worked perfectly next time I booted up

Thanks for your help!!

Yea np, weird how that got uninstalled though.