these are suggestionsrchase wrote:On my Kangaroo (Atom XZ-8500), 64-bit Nemesis 3.5 boots to the desktop, but the graphical cursor can't be seen. When I boot to text mode and issue "startx", I get the GDBus error described by Ed P. but the desktop appears and Wi-Fi is working. In the error box and all the GUI's text labels, certain letters are invisible ("b", "c", "m", and "U", e.g.). Suggestions?
I am not sure if your system is up to date?
Have a read of my glx tutorial....if you have not already done so
viewtopic.php?f=137&t=5432&hilit=glxgears
pretending you have not tried to it and assuming you have no mouse in desktop as reported lets try to do manually?
---there are shortcut keys to use on a desktop without a mouse but lets try below as I umm have not researched the ones you need.
I need to boot up with a changes cheatcode and the textmode cheatcode 3 eg 3 changes=/porteus
at console prompt login as guest then change to root and enter the other commands...you can skip kill Xorg as it should not be running
--but I include it to show the place to try it if lxdm does not work first time
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su
mhwd-gpu --setgl mesa
(skip) killall Xorg
lxdm
su -> (input pw)
lxdm
and then I am on graphical screen with a working mouse. lxdm takes me to my desktop rather than to a login manager screen.
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2) if you can borrow a neighbour's usb mouse you might like to try to fix glxgears first without going thru console prompt