ok i need some help here is a link to the othe forum and thread where ive orginally posted this issue

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/...m=1158855297/0

did you install kde or gnome? also what is the output of startx?

umm it did alot of things when i entered that, ummm i dont remember which i installed, but i just installed it last night

You need to post error messages at least. It's going to be very hard to help you without those.

As mentioned we Need the errors. Otherwise all it would be impossible to understand the exact problem and what is causeing the problem.

how do i do that?? sorry very green in linux

Perhaps the easiest way would be to get some paper and a pen and write down what it says when you try "startx".

try
that should place all the errors that run on your screen into a text file in you home folder. then just copy the log to here.

k it'll take me awhile

is there a command that i can save it to my flash drive? cuz i cant get onto the internet or anything

You'll need to mount your flash drive first. When you plug it in, run dmesg and that should tell you what device to mount. Here's an example when I plug my device in:

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Model: USB Flash Memory Rev: 1.04
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 499712 512-byte hdwr sectors (256 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: sda1
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.

The bit in bold is the important bit - it tells me I need to mount /dev/sda1. Actually, in my case, there's only 1 partition on my device, but there could be others (in which case "sda: sda1 sda2" or similar would appear).

Create a mount point (i.e. a folder to mount to), unless you have one you want to use. You do this with mkdir, e.g. "mkdir /mnt/usb".

You then need to use the mount command, e.g. "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb". If you get a message telling you the filesystem type needs to be specified, use mount's -t option to do this. If you don't know what filesystem is on your device, you can check by running "fdisk -l" (lowercase L, not number 1) and checking what it says for the relevant device. Post here if unsure. For a FAT32 filesystem, you use the type vfat (e.g. "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb -t vfat").

Lastly, you can copy your log file to the device with cp, e.g. "cp filename /mnt/usb".

Edit: unmount the device before you unplug it. This is done with umount (e.g. "umount /dev/sda1").

HTH.

ok thanks alot ill post the log thing as soon as i have time