computer broke

[Michael Havens]

Funny thing is I'm online with my laptop in text mode. I just pinged google
to make sure!

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay... I fixed the desktop! I can now load it in 3.1.4. When I was
> unpacking the kernel I was entering
>
>      dpkg -i x y z
>
> It liked:
>
>      dpkg -i x
>      dpkg -i y
>      dpkg -i z
>
> better than all on the same line.
> But the laptop is another matter. I figured out how to boot into text mode
> with the 3.1.4 kernel (recovery mode) but x won't start and I don't know
> what to do. When I type sudo startx the screen just goes blank like it does
> when I don't load in recovery mode.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Sorry about my last message. I wrote it last night at around 3:30 in the
>> morning.
>>
>> Okay, here is the deal: The computer with Mint on it will not boot from
>> the hard drive. Only from the CD. As such I have Mint running on it. On The
>> Ububntu system (I have two computers going) I installed the 3.1.4 kernel
>> too but it didn't like it either. The screen just goes blank if I run 3.1.4
>> and it gives me the kernel boot option if I restart it (every other time).
>> I tried synaptic (had to apt-get it) to remove the kernel but it wasn't in
>> the package list. I think that is because it is a newer kernel.
>>
>> Hmmmm..... I changed the boot order in Mint and it now is giving the
>> option of choosing kernels (on every other power down). Now I can boot the
>> laptop too.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:07 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds kinda like your video drivers are freaking out.  Can you still
>>> boot to external media?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why in the world don't I leave good enough alone! Well, I installed
>>>> mint and everything was perfect. The grafics were good, the sound was good,
>>>> everything was good after I installed the 3.1.4 kernel. Then I found out I
>>>> wasn't taking advantage of my 64bit processor so I reinstalled with a 64bit
>>>> operating system. That made things slower. So I reinstalled the 32 bit os
>>>> and everything went to hell! The screen now 'jumps ' around like it is
>>>> switching between desktops sometimes. I tried to install the 3.1.4 kernel
>>>> but that didn't work. uname -r reveals me kernel is still 3.0.0-12....
>>>> well, at least it hasn't crashed..... ohhhhh right after the kernel
>>>> finished installing it did crash (the caps lock light started blinking and
>>>> it froze). and the panicing has started! It doesn't tell me it has paniced
>>>> but the caps lock button starts flashing and it locks up like in a panic.
>>>> So I was thinking that perhaps this was because I extracted the .deb
>>>> files through the GUI this time; so I did it through a shell and now after
>>>> the option to enter bios the screen goes black. I tried hitting the escape
>>>> key after the option to enter bios but it does nothing. It hasn't even
>>>> entered runtime 1 (me thinks). Eek gads!
>>>> --
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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