On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:33:45 +0000, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2011 04:06:50 Ryan Collins wrote: >> Someone for the love of GOD, help me. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) >> on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell.
(...) > I have just (for the first time in years) installed a default install of > Squeeze. > > It starts up in the command line. No sign of X. This deos not cause me > a problem, since I was doing it just to see what happened. But I can > see that it would cause problems to newbies. There is obviously a bug. Have you both guys tried to run "startx" and see what happens? The most common causes I can think to be dropped in console after the installation are: 1/ GNOME (or other DE/windows manager) is not (select to be|properly) installed 2/ A problem with the VGA driver Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.03.04.11.26...@gmail.com