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brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

[Solved] Upgraded Hardware, Now No GUI

I just upgraded my RAM, Motherboard and Processor yesterday from a AMD Athlon x2 6400/2x 1GB DDR2/Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H combo to a Intel Core i7 950/4x 2GB DDR3/MSI Big Bang Xpower combo and it boots up perfectly, which slightly surprised me. The problems I'm having are I dont have a GUI and my internet doesn't work. The X server seems to load successfully (it doesn't crash) but all I get is a black screen and the monitor goes to sleep after a few seconds. After looking through the kdm.log I found it complaining that it can't connect to DBUS, even though DBUS is running. I noticed that the internet wasn't working when I tried to do a pacman -Syu, I'm assuming that's just because the proper module isn't loaded.

Is there a way to auto-detect all the new modules that I need, or something like that?

Last edited by brando56894 (2011-03-13 03:46:24)

Cagnulein

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From: Modena, Italy

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Re: [Solved] Upgraded Hardware, Now No GUI

check into your /etc/rc.conf

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"

Video chipset is still the same? Maybe you have to change your Xorg.conf

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ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

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Re: [Solved] Upgraded Hardware, Now No GUI

If you do not have a GUI after a motherboard switch I would check what video card is in the new mobo; perhaps your current video drivers are not adequate for it.
If the video card was of the same make, say nVidia, I would make sure that the drivers are compatible with the current version of my card and not a version for legacy nVidia.

Hope this helps.

R,.

brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: [Solved] Upgraded Hardware, Now No GUI

Turns out I've had video all along, it just though the monitor behind me (which I use for watching media) was my default screen. I went into rc.conf and MOD_AUTOLOAD is set to yes but my modules array is empty.

My internet works now too, I'm not used to having 2 ethernet adpaters again, I had had to add eth1 to rc.conf.

Last edited by brando56894 (2011-03-13 03:46:12)