I have installed ubuntu desktop (not server) because some users want to access the gui (because of their applications). Now what I want to manage is: 1- boot the system in shell mode. 2- if someone want, use startx command to enter graphic mode for his own. otherwise he can continue to use pure terminal shell.
Is it possible to do such thing? how?
I'm an absolute beginner and I've recently upgraded to 10.04 Lucid on a Dell laptop. Upon booting I get only a terminal window instead of the usual ubuntu graphic interface.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am booting a certain system of mine with ubuntu 9.10 from external HDD. I am satisfied with the setup and it works fine, however I would like to modify it so that I can choose which graphic card drivers to load during the boot time. Specifically I would like to choose between:
nvidia proprietary driver
ati proprietary driver
generic driver
Currently if I am using proprietary drivers then dont boot into X, delete xorg.conf, start gdm and reconfigure the system using jockey (for hardware drivers).
What would be the steps to make this (semi-)automatic and avoid restarting X?
Where could one find examples of such scripts?
I've been having this glitch since Maverick. I hoped installing Narwhal would solve it (clearly not), I like Ubuntu, but this makes the OS frustrating and pretty much unusable, forcing me to stick with Windows.
The glitch appears randomly but mostly within 5-10 minutes after booting.
Another thing : when you want to screenshot the glitch, it usually gives you a perfect image, with everything OK. I have no idea why it worked now. I have a Packard Bell Dot M Netbook.
I cannot start my ubuntu 9.10 from graphic interface now. The system can boot into the graphic interface, but will stop response at the point just before the login window appears. I've triyed reinstalling the gdm, and rerun gdm from the character tty, but it did not work.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have one Asus motherboard with inbuilt HD 3300 Radeon family graphics system, I have used it with radeon and radeonhd drivers and I have xorg.conf. I tried to change card to Radeon HD 4350 but it didn't give more than terminal view, Xdm didn't start. I believed the driver would support both cards?
View 1 Replies View Relatedubuntu 10.10 64 bit i try to change graphic card it have some problem bit about colour an old i use ship of nvidia gforce 200 series but when i change to nvidia gforce 7900 i login it's show in black screen mode . ubuntu 10.10 name-desktop tty1 name-desktop login: _
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I finally got ubuntu..I wanted to play team fortress 2.Runs great in wine etc.But 1 problem.It keeps saying my graphic card is outdated.I cant see anything.So I downloaded the driver from nvidia website.Followed some instructions.But it says cannot open binary file or something.Is there any other way to update graphic drivers.Cause I realy still want to play some windows games.Mount&blade, Atlantica online,team fortress 2 etc
View 1 Replies View Relatedi justy got me a dedi box and there is no graphic driver installed on it, or it dont work :/ VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] but wen i try installing enemy territory it comes back with error on graphic card
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I have an ubuntu PC with 512 MB ram and an 3d graphic card that can normally support Guild Wars on windows xp. I installed the game with Wine an the game opens, I can see my character menu but the problem is none of the 3D graphic parts works, I just see a black screen.I even installed directX.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am using ubuntu10.04-server 64bit AMD with fluxbox. After I ran Matlab in a shell (without GUI) the shell does not display characters anymore, but will execute any command, I just can't see the characters that I'm typing.. I use aterm and xterm, does anybody know why that is, am I missing a package?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAs far as I know the power went out once and my computer might have been on - now Ubuntu won't boot correctly. It boots into 'BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash)'.
Code:
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
(initramfs)
I am working on a embedded target board which runs on linux. The target board is connected to a linux machine through serial port. To bootup the target board, I run the minicom in the linux machine, boot the kernal of the target board through giving the boot command through the serial console (minicom). Now the question is when the target board boots up, it doesn't starts a shell. The rc scripts are getting executed. There are target specific applications getting started from the rc scripts. I appended & to the last launched application. Still I don't get shell prompt.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am working on a embedded target board which runs on linux. The target board is connected to a linux machine through serial port. To bootup the target board, I run the minicom in the linux machine, boot the kernal of the target board through giving the boot command through the serial console (minicom). Now the question is when the target board boots up, it doesn't starts a shell. The rc scripts are getting executed. There are target specific applications getting started from the rc scripts. I appended & to the last launched application. Still I don't get shell prompt.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have never in a year had a problem with this d-boot system. Two days ago I tried to boot into ubuntu like every day. It started to load normal, went to the ubuntu logo and paused for about 15 seconds and posted this under the logo:
One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet be mounted
/: waiting for /dev/loop0
/tmp: waiting for (null)
/boot: waiting for /host/ubuntu/disks/boot
Press ESC to enter a recovery shell
I have looked everywhere and tried so many things, I can't look any further. All I have been doing for two days is trying to boot this system.
In Fedora 10, I cannot get to the installer because it shows these messed up strips graphics (its not due to my graphic card, my graphic card is supported 7600gt) in non-quiet install it shows logical errors and i/o errors.
View 12 Replies View RelatedMy server was installed Centos 5.4 maximal. Now I want to remove packages which are unnecessary for security .
how to remove graphic mode on the server (include related packages)?
I am running mandriva 2010.0 Kernel 2.6.31.5-server-1mnb for my web, mail, dns and ftp server. the problem is i couldn't run webmin on that server because of Mandriva can not detecting the graphic adapter
The server is HP Proliant DL160 G6, and the graphic adapter is ATI ES1000. i need the driver
I am trying to install NVIDIA graphics drivers. I can execute the .run but it comes up with an error the X Server is in use and needs to be closed.
I have tried to run
Ctrl Alt Backspace
and
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
But the terminal requests the root password and I can not enter anything for the password in the line. If I go to the next line and enter anything the password fails.
When I try to start alacarte from the shell, I get: Traceback (most recent call last):
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The reason I start from the shell is because I noticed that it would crash after starting up in system monitor. This problem started after I tried to remove a program from the list which had already been manually removed. When this program was unchecked, the list went completely blank. I tried to revert the list, but it didn't work. Is there any hopes of repair?
When I first installed Lynx it would boot fine but as the first kernel updates came in it began to get really dodgy. Some days a certain kernel would boot up fine whereas the other would boot without X (i have dual boot with XP and so the kernel options come up on GRUB)Just today I updated the NVIDIA drivers and now neither boots fine, I looked around and I found that after logging in running "startx" in the CLI, which is displayed instead, i get my normal desktop back again.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI wrote a script, and what to make it surring with ububtu as startup shell.
View 9 Replies View RelatedFedora 12 64bit KVM
How to stop KVM start at booting?
Then how to start it after booting?
Well, I initially had quite a lot of trouble getting Compiz to work, but I finally got it to go. I had to use these start-up parameters in order to get it to work:
Code:
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=true compiz --replace --sm-disable ccp &
emerald --replace
How in the world do I get Compiz to start up like this on boot up, so I can use it easily?
i need to add a line in the login start up file(s) (one of ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile) and startup file run by my shell when started as a non-login shell (~/.bashrc) so as to set up my account envirnoment for one of my courses.I don't know how to proceed with this. I tried doing this in my ubuntu enviroment and my system got locked after that.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to start servers which are running on my pc with one shell script.
what I wrote is.
#!bin/sh
cd /home/HUNT/server1
gnome-terminal
sh script/server start_with_output
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Result I got is:
A new terminal opened with current directory as /home/HUNT/server1 and server started running.
What I didn't get: second terminal and second server were not running.
I have a particular script xxxx in folder yyyy. How can i start/execute xxxx whenever i open or cd into yyyy.
View 3 Replies View RelatedThis is on Fedora 11. How do I start up a shell script when the system starts?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have USB Modem ZTE AC2726 . I am always Connect using Wvvdial or Network Manager , it Works Fine , But I want to do that when computer Booting it can auto start but i can�t do this . i have use many rules such as /etc/rc.local or udev rules to failure .I am using Fedora 14.
View 3 Replies View RelatedRight, so I've looked high and low for the answer to this problem and haven't found it, although I've found a million and a half threads about grub especially when it comes to dual booting windows. Which I'm not. What I am though, I suspect, is an idiot who shouldn't mess around with my computer at 4 am.
So the problem is every time I turn on my pc, grub tells me it can't find a file system and goes into recovery mode. Can't boot into ubuntu at all. Am using the live disk to type this.
I also think I know why grub is doing this, I was dual booting windows before, I had windows installed originally, added ubuntu to a new partition. Was having problems with grub. Figured that reinstalling it wouldn't be a bad idea, it might fix it. In that process I did something rather stupid, I accidentally installed grub to my other internal hard drive. There is no operating system on it. Just movies, music, etc. The problem, I think, is that my second hard drive is sda, and the one with my os is sdb, which I suspect means that grub is loading from sda and finding no operating system, rather than from sdb. (It's like that because my larger drive wouldn't fit into the sda slot on my computer, long story.) How do I remove grub from sda?