[Solved]Console screen is flickering with Vesa driver+/home not found

Archiee · 2008-12-27 20:07:14

Hey @ all,

my problem:

I accidentally interchanged my swap partition with home partition. So Swap was 18gb big and home only 1 gb big.
I corrected this with GParted-Live-CD.
So if I start Archlinux there is no prob. But if I login to X as a User then it says: "No /home found".
And if i want to switch to console by typing "CTRL+ALT+F2" then the screen is flickering..
I use a xf86-vesa driver because the xf86-intel didnt work at my Notebook(with Typ Intel RG82855GM Graphics).
I also edited fstab by correcting UID.

So my question is:
How can I stop starting x at boot process? Dont forget, I can't login to X and can't swich by CTRL+ALT+F2 because its flickering and therefore I can't see nearly nothing of the console.

Thank you very much for helping me

Greetz

Archiee

Last edited by Archiee (2009-01-03 15:41:58)

daf666 · 2008-12-27 20:20:22

for starters, regain console access: in the grub prompt, add '3' at the end of the kernel line and boot.

Archiee · 2008-12-27 20:21:49

Thx for fast reply )) I'll tried now..

Archiee · 2008-12-27 20:29:17

nope, doesn't work because it says at boot "Entering runlevel 3" and then it starts x..
I tried also typing to at the end of line. Result: "Entering runlevel 2" -> starting x

Arm-the-Homeless · 2008-12-27 20:38:29

Instead of 3, put in single.

Archiee · 2008-12-27 20:58:47

Thx, this works. Now, I looked at my fstab and its OK. At the console I get access to /home.
I typed "cat /ect/passwd". My username is registered at the system and is located under /home/username.
But under home there was no folder named with my username. So I created /home/username and also /home/username/Desktop. OK, if I login now it doesnt loads anything. I see only my wallpaper.

What's the next step?

UPDATE:
The problem was that it doesn't existed any userdata BECAUSE I deleted my /home partition before. Yes, I did a backup but I forgot the hidden files in my home-folder!!! There're many many configuration files of the user. Therefore I added a new user like this:

adduser
usermod -aG audio,video,floppy,lp,optical,network,storage,wheel USERNAME

My flicker problem remains:
If I exit or switch from X to console the screen is shifted to the top edge and flickers extremely. I have a Toshiba Portege M100 Notebook (subnotebook with 12.1 ")...
Can't find the right refresh rates...

Last edited by Archiee (2008-12-28 02:38:41)

Archiee · 2008-12-28 03:26:06

help me plz

daf666 · 2008-12-28 18:53:44

Did u try the different console modes grub supports? look at menu.lst

Archiee · 2009-01-03 15:40:12

I solved it!!
My problem was that the installed vesa graphics driver didn't support my Intel 855GM Graphics. So I deinstalled it (pacman -R xf86-video-vesa) and installed new intel driver (pacman -S xf86-video-intel) AND configured my xorg.conf-file correctly.

ATTENTION:
The automatic configuration of xorg.conf file didn't work well BECAUSE it set the wrong "Identifier" at "Device" Section in xorg.conf. You must correct it to "Intel". And "driver" should be "intel".
Then, it will work fine!

Ask me for further questions!

Last edited by Archiee (2009-01-03 15:40:48)

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