Thursday 23 February 2012

Backtrack 5 - startx Gnome problem solved

This topic has been brought up many times. One of the many threads about it is this one: Black Screen afnstter Hard Disk Install and "startx"
there are many solution

The fix that works for me permanently is:
 Edit your grub file with:

 After installation of backtrack the screen go blank when startx command is    pressed so instead of typing startx type below code

Code:

     gedit /etc/default/grub

    Find this line in that file
    Code:

     GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text splash nomodeset=1 vga=791"



    change that line to
    Code:

     GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.modeset=1 vga=791"
as show in below pic


    Save and close this file.
 dont forget  to update grub after changes type below command
    Code:

     update-grub

4 comments:

  1. Thanks A lot dude, it worked perfectly for me....
    thank you...could you please explain,why we changed that parameter...

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  2. my graphics card is ati radeon 5670 hd...

    please tell me how to fix this??

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  3. thanks!!! perfect for me. the true!!! very very very thanks!!!! :)

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  4. hi... i tried to access the grub file but i got an error...

    Gtk-WARNING **:cannot open display:

    what do i do..???

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