[Tfug] black screen

[Nathan]

I guess I should have checked my e-mail prior to upgrading my kid's Dell
Inspiron 1500n that came with 8.04. I may be very glad I made recovery
dvds before the upgrade. 
I do have to agree with Earl. That's why I stick with Novell SLED
releases, no OpenSuse or cutting edge releases. I have better things to
do with my time. 
On the troubleshooting front, I think I would start with uninstalling
gnome/gdm/X. Reboot then reinstall them, but that gets a little tricky,
so a reinstall would be a lot faster.

Nate

On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 06:09 +0000, Ray Reeves wrote:
> AAAARRGGG.
> 
> Installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1100 and all was well. Did a
> update and it boots into the system ok but the screen is black. I
> booted into a terminal and deleted compiz and compiz core. No good. 
> 
> Booted into the recovery os, fixed broken packages, xterm etc to no
> avail.
> 
> Could use some ideas, I really don't want to use XP.........
> 
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