Black screen with blinking cursor after login (solved!)
Posted: 06 Jul 2013, 14:34
This happened on the 32-bit editions of Porteus 2.1, Razor-QT and KDE versions--both downloaded from the links in the release announcement and created through the wizard
Btw, my laptop is an Lenovo Ideapad s110, and I've never been able to install any version of Porteus on it
Anyway, what happens is that after login, I try to start x and it fails, I end up with a black screen and a blinking cursor, which I can control with the mouse somewhat--clicking, holding, and dragging selects an area of...well, nothing. It's like I was highlighting a paragraph of black letters on a black background.
Sometimes this happens before I'm even able to finish logging in
Any idea what this is? I'd really love to get Porteus on my netbook
Btw, my laptop is an Lenovo Ideapad s110, and I've never been able to install any version of Porteus on it
Anyway, what happens is that after login, I try to start x and it fails, I end up with a black screen and a blinking cursor, which I can control with the mouse somewhat--clicking, holding, and dragging selects an area of...well, nothing. It's like I was highlighting a paragraph of black letters on a black background.
Sometimes this happens before I'm even able to finish logging in
Any idea what this is? I'd really love to get Porteus on my netbook