I black screen starts when i load my ubunu 9.10

Taso5 · 02-03-2010, 12:30 PM

When i open my pc and load ubuntu 9.10 a black screen opens and i should write my user and then my password i was doing something in the terminal last time but i don't remember what how can i fix it ? i don't care if i lost data

Peacedog · 02-03-2010, 10:20 PM

Hi Tasco5, Welcome to LQ. Have you tried to start X?

Code:

$ startx

What exactly were you doing? Are there any error messages?

Good luck. ;-)

vansch76 · 02-03-2010, 10:38 PM

hi tos

does your mother board have a video out and you have a second video card installed?
This happened to me, I had made a change, and disabled the video card in the process.
Ubuntu would boot then the screen would go black and nothing would happen.

I had to take out the new video card and boot with the on board video output.
re-enable the in the Nvidea drivers before the new video card would work.

this sounds simular to what i did. If you have a second video card you should try
removing it and starting with the on board video.

Hope this helps

Vanessa

Taso5 · 02-04-2010, 03:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peacedog

Hi Tasco5, Welcome to LQ. Have you tried to start X?

Code:

$ startx

What exactly were you doing? Are there any error messages?

Good luck. ;-)

i tried to unistall the nvidia drivers and not only from terminal

Peacedog · 02-04-2010, 05:46 PM

You may have removed more than just the drivers. What does the log file say about your packages?

Code:

$cat /var/log/dpkg.log

Good luck. ;-)