[vox-tech] white screen

[jenks at resonance.org]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Jimbo wrote:

> Greetings:
> Had my linux installed at the installfest.  Worked great at the time.  3d 
> acceleration was rightchous.
> 
> I now have a new problem in which I cannot go to my desktop environment-just 
> a white screen.  It doesn give me a cursor in which can be moved: changes to 
> a pointed hand-link hand-when placed at certain areas of the screen.  I 
> guess this means that the mechanics are inplemented but everything is a 
> wash.
> 
> Grub does its thing, loads my os, then gives me a user screen as usual. 
> When I try to log in as any user, including root, I wind up with a white 
> screen.
> 
> I might be able to muddle thru and go to the x files (funny-used to watch 
> this show a lot), and change a few options but this is very challenging for 
> my given my lvl of expertise.
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> Jimbo

   Dear Jimbo,

   I had this happen recently when I tried to install Beryl on my ubuntu 
Feisty. I assumed it didn't like my cheap video card. I went to a console 
(ctrl-alt-F1), uninstalled beryl and rebooted and everything was fine. I 
wonder what you were doing just before the white screen?

   Yours,

     Chris