In order to address the problem, you'd have to be more specific. In general, however, a common problem when your video works in recovery mode or when logged in as root, but not when you boot up and log in as a user is that one of your configuration files has inadvertently had its permissions changed and you can't write to a file that you need to write to -- things like xsessions, xsessions-errors, xauthority files, that kind of thing. I can't remember the exact file, but if you go to your user home directory and poke around, you might see some files belonging to root that shouldn't.
I managed to do that once or twice by su'ing to root before I started X, forgetting I was root, and then starting X. All those files got modified in my user home directory, and the ownership changed to root. The next time I logged in as a user and tried to start X, nothing would work. I initially thought I had screwed up the video driver (since I was upgrading a lot of files), but then I noticed that things worked OK when I logged in as root. Note that some of these are hidden files. billo On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, jbander wrote:
What is taken off the ability of my video card so that it works in Recovery mode. What's missing -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
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