Hi everyone, I just installed kububtu on a bit of free space on my first hard drive. The installation went perfectly, no problems/errors at all. However, when I rebooted the system, I booted Kubuntu, it seemed to be working fine, I had a nice Kubuntu logo with some lines telling me what it was doing, but when it came to the point where the X server is started, the screen went blank, then back came the kubuntu logo with an empty progress bar, and there it stayed. I can login from another virtual terminal, but when I try to start X, nothing happens. Just wondering, does anyone know what is going on here, and how to fix it?

Thanks for all your help,

John

Well, assuming that you installed X properly during the install (which, judging by your distro list, you know what you're doing), I would run the X configuration command in terminal and set up your X properly.

Try it... can't hurt, right?

Luck!

~Eric

Thanks for the suggestion vtel57, I tried it, and instead of nothing, got an error message basically telling me I had no screen. So, I turned off the computer, unplugged the monitor, and plugged it into my motherboard's onboard graphics, which I hate. Switched it back on, nothing happened on monitor. OK, I removed my PCI graphics card, and tried again. Now I can bot Kubuntu and see the desktop.

Now I need to get Kubuntu to use my PCI card instead of onboard graphics, anybody know how?

Thanks very much.

John

What kind of card? Nvidia chipset? If so, install the Nvidia drivers, then reconfigure X again. That should do it for you.

No, it's not an Nvidia card, it's a SiS one,

If I have the monitor plugged into the SiS PCI card, I can't see X in Kubuntu, and if I have the monitor plugged into the onboard graphics with the PCI card installed, the monitor shows nothing at all. If I leave the PCI card out, and switch on the computer, while it is waiting for me to tell it which OS to boot, I quickly put the PCI card in and boot Kubuntu, both cards show up in the KDE control centre. I tried to set the PCI card as the primary one, but it was just the same after a reboot. I'm gonna try the dual head thing with the second card cloning the first one, hopefully it will work.

I tried it, and somehow it broke my install!! GRUB stopped loading. Oh well, I re-installed and ran the reconfigure again. I feel like such an idiot, when I did it before I left the PCI identifier as the default, which happened to be the Intel card. I changed it now, to the real card, and it's working.

Thanks for the help, vtel57, I was wondering why I couldn't do 'xorgconfig' or 'xorgsetup'

Once again, thanks


John

Heh! No need to feel like an idiot. The learning curve for GNU/Linux can be pretty steep. I know. I just came over from Windows back in July. It's been a helluva ride so far! Trial and error... a lot of error. That's the way to learn. Glad you got it working!

Oh, and, as you've found out, different distros have different methods to configure X. Slack uses the xorgconfig command, but in Ubuntu (Debian-based) you need the dpkg-reconfigure command.

Learning Linux as I go... the FUN way!

Best of luck in your further Linux adventures, my friend!

~Eric

PS: Check out THIS thread at another forum I belong to, which is loaded with great links and info about Ubuntu.

"A lot of error" is definately right, and it is a lot of fun. I moved from Windows about 2 months ago now, and I have to say, I love Linux. It is much easier to get it to do whatever you want, if a little different from Windows. I find the command line to be very useful too, in XP, I struggled to make the "command prompt" do anything useful at all. So far I have converted 4 people to Linux, and I will continue until at least 99% of people are using it.

It's all about freedom for me.

Lovin' Linux

John

Freedom! That's it, indeed. Freedom from tyranny. Freedom from insecurity. Freedom to choose. You'll be a certified Linux junkie in no time at all! I haven't booted into Windows in weeks. It's a wonderful feeling. If it weren't for games, I wouldn't have Windows on my system at all.