Op Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:31:36 -0600 (MDT) schreef Harsha Godavari <h.godav...@shaw.ca>:
> Just as the sad-face appeared a message flashed in top right hand > corner of the screen . Something about "Gnome 3 Failed load"? When I > pressed Ctrl-Alt-F1, I was dropped to command prompt It appears that your graphics hardware is incompatible with Gnome 3. Gnome normally has a fallback mode for these situations, but that doesn't seem to work for you. You could try a different desktop environment. E.g. run 'sudo apt-get install xfce4' on the command prompt and then try startx again. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users