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PcCowboy

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where did my GUI go??
« on: October 09, 2009, 05:33:15 am »
So i activated the new nvidia drivers did a reboot and now it bringing me to the shell saying. "<init: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/7c01...... <init: no resume image, doing normal boot..."  then it ask for user-name and pass and just returns a prompt.  how do i get into the desktop??

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Re: where did my GUI go??
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2009, 06:58:28 pm »
Hi,

Did you go with 710 or 810?

One place to look at is your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and make sure you are using the nvidia driver not vesa or nv.

(Based on assumption you went 810 and have an nvidia card at/above 6XXX)

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Re: where did my GUI go??
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2009, 12:32:12 am »
Its 810.

Thanks ill give that a try.

(btw did obama seriously get a nobel? What the heck for?!?  ???  )