No login screen

[Blitze105]

Hello,
So today i was using kate to write a little bit of C++... I saved, closed the program clicked power and pressed suspend. I opened my laptop about 5 minutes later and the ubuntu logo shows up, disappears, the cursor appears at the top left, and then the screen turns black and nothing happens.

I am running Ubuntu 9.10, 64-bit, and I am using the usual grub boot loader.
I am not sure if you need any more information... i wish i could add more but that is it. I did start it up in safe mode and i can get access to everything when i log in that way. But if i go back to the regular boot after typing $reboot it still does the same thing.

Thanks for helping guys
~Blitze

[devils casper]

Which Graphics Card do you have? Did you upgrade kernel recently?

[Blitze105]

I have not done any updates since the install.

It is an: Ati Radeon HD 3200 Graphics card
1468 MB of memory on it

[devils casper]

Is it a fresh installation? Have you installed ATI proprietary Driver?
Execute this

cd /etc/X11
ls
grep -i driver xorg.conf

Post output here.

[Blitze105]

Ok.. i am not sure what happened but i tried to boot up and it just worked. My professor said he had no idea, as he watched this all unfold....

Anyhow, here was the output if you were curious:

ls
app-defaults fonts xinit Xsession XvMCConfig
cursors rgb.txt xkb Xsession.d Xwrapper.config
default-display-manager X Xresources Xsession.options

anyhow... thank you for your time I am not sure what happened here... any idea?
~Blitze

[devils casper]

I am not sure what was the problem. There isn't any xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 folder and X Server is using default configuration for your Graphics Card and Monitor.

Have you installed ATI Proprietary driver?

[coopstah13]

i don't think this is graphics issue, it has to do with suspend not working properly or not being setup properly

https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/hardwar...uspending.html