Ver 10 NEW install

5280 wrote:

windows 10 ran just fine. 

Just because Windows works doesn't mean anything.
Linux is more sensitive to hardware problems, for example it may refuse to work on a technically efficient but overclocked computer.
Let me tell you a story.
A long time ago I worked in a computer repair shop. One client regularly brought his computer. Windows kept crashing and the disk was full of garbage. After wiping the disk and reinstalling the system, everything worked fine. I've done hundreds of tests and found nothing. The computer was returned to the client and after some time it was in the same condition as before. Until one day I noticed that the processor temperature was a little higher than it should be. Just a few degrees higher, but I decided to replace the processor. From that moment on, I never saw that computer again. The explanation is simple, a hot processor sometimes performed incorrect operations and wrote incorrect results to the disk. The errors kept increasing and after some time an avalanche started...
Why am I talking about this?
Because not everything can be checked and not everything can be repaired.
If your installation media is not damaged, there is no point in investigating the cause of your computer not working.
CNC is not a toy, it is a machine that can cause damages and injure the operator.
Everything must be checked like on airplanes, and if something is suspicious, it must be removed.

Download a different installation image, use a different pendrive. If the problem persists, leave this computer alone.

systemctl get-default

it reply's with graphical.target

Ok, graphical.target is correct. This tells me it is configured to start to graphical, but apparently something is breaking it.

Lets try:
(run this before startx, then let me know what it answered:)
sudo lspci -nnk | grep -A 3 -i vga

maybe also run it again in a terminal after you ran startx and see if anything changed.

the reply is :

00:02:0 VGA compatible controller (0300): Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (8086:0a16) (rev 09)
Subsystem: Dell Device (1028:05ec)
Kernel driver in use 1915
Kernel modules: 1915

I think got it all typed right.

Again THANK YOU for all the help.

The 2nd reply from the program in terminal is the same.

right .... oops

sounds like graphics drivers likely loaded just fine

Have you made any edits to the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf yet?

Something I think to try, before running startx:
sudo systemctl status display-manager --no-pager -l
and
systemctl status lightdm --no-pager -l
If you can, snap a good photo of each command's result and post here that will save you lots of typing.

Good day Sir

I have done "no edits to any files" dont know how to do that. and would not modify anything while trouble shooting a setup.

the 2 lines of code do nothing but take me back to the prompt.

in lookin at how to connect linuxcnc to outputs to the motors i see it utilizes the
printer port which i do not have on this laptop and that means i prob. would have to use the rj45 which i dont know if i have the mind power to do that. i have to look at that closer.
But would still like to solve the login thing so i don't have to do the ctrl alt f3 and then the startx thing in just lookin at the running program. which may not be a big thing at this point.
tks
Ken

5280 wrote:

the 2 lines of code do nothing but take me back to the prompt.


 

Sorry, I can't figure out how it can return nothing. It should display the status of lightdm. And if lightdm does for some reason not exist, it should complain.

Does it work when you try those two commands after you're logged in and run startx?

What make/model laptop is this? Some laptops do not run linuxcnc correctly.