[vox-tech] white screen

[Jimbo]

>From what I have read online it appears that this is a common problem.

A fix is to update beryl which I will try with synaptic once I get to my 
desktop.

Do you know how I can do that?  Disable beryl from starting?

Jimbo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jenks at resonance.org>
To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" <vox-tech at lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] white screen


>
> 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
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