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So I recently installed e17 on my laptop. I am running Hoary Ubuntu on a HP dv1000 laptop. Everything was going pretty good. Sure E would crash here and there but I was expecting that. But then things went bad. I was was using the menu editor and e crashed, and crashed hard. Touchpad, keyboard, everything locked. Even the power button seemed frozen. Finally the power button let me reset my laptop. Now when I boot everything goes great until X starts. Then the screen goes blank. I hear the sound that means I am at the login screen. I can even type in my name and password and hear gnome loading up. But the screen stays blank. I can still use Alt-Ctrl-F* to get to other terminals just fine, X is just messed up. I have also found that when I try to change the display output using the hotkey on my laptop I sometimes end up with just the mouse pointer on the black screen.
I am a bit of a novice with linux, generally I can get myself in and out of trouble, but this one I have no idea on. Thank you all.
Sorry, I had to run to lunch. Okay, so I did the reconfigure Xserver bit. Went through just fine, no problems through the entire sequence. Restart xserver and now it is a bit different. starts of all black and then fades from black to white. Starting at bottom right corner to the top left corner. And then nothing.
Something else I have found that may or may not help diagnose the problem. After I type in my user name and password, again without actually seeing the login screen, and get into gnome I have tried switching the display output. And when I do the screen looks garbled for a second, but I can tell that it is my gnome desktop from the colors and where it is. I can't help but think I pushed something stupid that changed outputs or something like that. Also after trying to switch outputs the mouse pointer appears on the all black screen.
well, i don't want to start any flames but ubuntu seems to think they have all the 'best' ways to do things so they grab debian, muck with it, and then try to sell it as 'debian compatible'... Well, I fell for that and now my sys is so 'f'ed up after updating some major pkgs from debian repositories... my advice would be, dump ubuntu, install debian and their version of enlightenment... i guarantee you it's been tested COMPLETELY before making it into their stable release.. (sarge) I doubt you'll have any problems with it...
I personally blame ubuntu for ALL my system problems weather it's their fault or not ONLY because I have been able to track down so many of them to ubuntu's failure to adequately test THEIR modifications to the debian packages before turning them lose on us poor unsuspecting users...
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