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Re: boot issue

PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 10:14 am
by Klaatu2
Thanks for all of your responses. None of this seemed to work so I re-installed from scratch. It seems that you pretty much have to be a programmer to get along with Ultimate Edition For all the flak that Windows OSs catch, they still seem to work out of the box and can even be operated by noobs such as mahself. Thanks again. Stay tuned for a new issue with the new install.

Re: boot isse

PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 11:33 am
by pam
Sorry for the late reply....depends on how busy everyone is and it can be hard to have patience.

Ultimate Edition is just fine.You need to get to the Ultimate Edition desktop, if thats what you are asking help for.

On the terminal, start the X server:
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startx


Im not clear on whether you have installed Ultimate Edition but kernel 3.1X has decent APU code to get to desktop.
Nonetheless, you need to connect to the network, using ifconfig if you cant get desktop...and then install your drivers from the repo:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree

reboot

and delete the xorg file:
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sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

logout and login....should work...

Re: boot issue

PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 10:13 am
by Klaatu2
I actually tried 'startx' several times before reinstalling. Didn't have any effect - which tells me this probably went deeper than the Xorg files. This all happened as a result of installing PlayonLinux. It seems to have trashed the whole system.

I appreciate your response and will keep it in mind if there is another such incident. I'm also going to start a new thread concerning Terminal on my new installation. Thanks again.