problem with graphic interface

**dridi0wafa** · 05-01-2010

hi,
i have a problem with my graphic interface, it wont work any more, its just black i cant type password and login to get in the session, what can i do ?!

thank you

**nujinini** · 05-01-2010

Hi!

Can you please tell us what you were doing when this happened? It might also help if you an give more information regarding your machine's specs.

. And also what OS in particular you installed?

**devils casper** · 05-01-2010

Press Alt+Ctrl+F4 at blank screen. Does it switch to command line mode?
Which version of RedHat/Fedora are you using? Which Graphics Card do you have? Post your machine's specs as suggested earlier.

**dridi0wafa** · 05-01-2010

redhat, i was doing nothing at all, just starting it, it does its test, then when it comes to entering login and password, the interface wont show up,

**devils casper** · 05-01-2010

Which version of RedHat? Could you tell us about your Graphics Card and other specs?

**dridi0wafa** · 05-01-2010

redhat 9 i think, am working on windows vista, and using vmware workstation wich give the opportunity to use virtuelle machine, redhat is the virtuel machine, windows works perfectly , when i start vmware, every thing is fine also, i start redhat, every thing is fine, but when it arrives to the windows that let us typing the login, it becomes black,

can we join file in here ? if u want i can cupture the screen to show u how does it look , sorry if my english is not good enough

**nujinini** · 05-01-2010

So you have a machine that's running vista and it's running perfectly.
You also have vmware workstation wherein you have installed the redhat 9.
Your problem is the redhat on the vmware? Did I get it right?

Was it working before? I mean were you able to use it already? Or is this a newly installation?

sorry if my english is not good enough

No problem with me here

**dridi0wafa** · 05-01-2010

sure, it was working, but from thursday am fighting with it, i didnt find solutions, i just enter to redhat files by typing "alt Fx" x=1 or 2 or 3 or.. so i could take my folders unfortunatly, but in this mode , not all commands were working , for exemple, i used to type "kwrite " , its not working, so i have to use graphic interface, help me plzzzzzzzzz

**devils casper** · 05-01-2010

RedHat 9 is an obsolete distro around 8 years old. I am surprised that it worked ( even though for a few days ) in latest hardware. I would suggest you to consider latest version of any distro. If you want to use RedHat based distro only then Fedora is best bet. It is based on RedHat and free to download/install.

There are a lot of other distros available. I don't have much experience in Virtual machines and I can't help you here. If you have around 10GB free space then install Linux in separate partition. There will be a lot of performance difference. But if you have latest hardware, virtual works fine too.

**nujinini** · 05-02-2010

VIrtualBox has a feature called "snapshot". It allows you to make a systems restore point.

I usually take snapshots of my OS in virtualbox while its in its healthiest state. So like when my CentOS which I run in it got screwed up the other day? (I was playing with the terninal)

,! I just had to click on a snapshot and voila! I was able to restore my system and repair the problem with one click. I am not familiar with vmware though if it has an equivalent feature

If you want to use RedHat based distro only then Fedora is best bet.

I fully agree. You might want to try Casper's suggestion

. An 8 year old distro is just way too old.IMO

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