[ale] Re: [ale-admin] Newbie needs help!

[John Wells]

> Uncle Flip wrote:
>> When I boot into Linux, I get a comand line login screen which quickly
>> disappears, then reappears, three times or so.  After that, I get an
>> ascii dialog box that is unreadable, as the characters are garbled
>> (loading a different character set?).  It gives two options, and I
>> have tried both.

That's gdm starting up, trying to load, and then failing after a number of
retries.  I've seen this before.  Don't know why the characters are
screwed but it happens on my machine so it must be a common bug.

Only time I've seen this is when I had the wrong drivers loaded for my
video card (Nvidia).

It'd probably help to learn what kind of hardware you have...

John




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