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Walter Mitty

2005-12-17, 7:46 am

My desktop has stopped coming up. Normally Ubuntu goes through the
usal device driver phase, the screen goes all "mashed" then I have my
nice Ubuntu logon screen.

I turn on my pc this morning and when the system tries to run GDM/X my
monitor turns off through "no signal". Last night I installed
"gdesklets" : I have since removed them from a recovery text shell
(same monitor btw).

I have tried installing and reinstalling my fglrx driver (ati).

Could someone please outline the rules for tracing logs,
installing/uninstalling that I need to follow to (a) discover whats
wrong at desktop start and (b) how to go about fixing it.

thanks for any help.
Walter Mitty

2005-12-17, 7:46 am

In an earlier post, Walter Mitty postulated:
> My desktop has stopped coming up. Normally Ubuntu goes through the
> usal device driver phase, the screen goes all "mashed" then I have my
> nice Ubuntu logon screen.
>
> I turn on my pc this morning and when the system tries to run GDM/X my
> monitor turns off through "no signal". Last night I installed
> "gdesklets" : I have since removed them from a recovery text shell
> (same monitor btw).
>
> I have tried installing and reinstalling my fglrx driver (ati).
>
> Could someone please outline the rules for tracing logs,
> installing/uninstalling that I need to follow to (a) discover whats
> wrong at desktop start and (b) how to go about fixing it.
>
> thanks for any help.



Problem solved.

It seems that installation of desklets somehow corrupted my xorg.conf

No idea how or why but a roleback fixed the problem.
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