post the specs on your system.
Backtrack2 - GUI does not start correctly
Hello from an absolute Linux-beginner from Germany, who does neither know what Linux is nor even speaks good english.
But I hope any Linix-specialist will help me anyway to become my bt2 running (specially the GUI).
I try to describe briefly what happens: PC (elder laptop) starts from CD, asks name “root” password “toor” and shows then the DOS-PROMPT (don’ know how the command line is called in Linux, but so far all is OK).
After input of startx CD-ROM starts nearly endless working and then a yellow mouse pointer on a black screen remains – nothing else. Finally one often only can pull off the accumulator to boot again.
What can I make, in order to isolate the problem? (as I have no WLAN-connection and the gui doesn't work, I am unfortunately not able to post any log files here) (P.S. the CD is burned correctly).
So please help me to use Linux/Bt2
post the specs on your system.
Instead of startx use xconf first then startx and see if that works. Posting more info about your computer will also be helpful.Originally Posted by guest4711
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yeah, try "xconf", then "startx".
it worked for me
Why are you using (or trying to use) BackTrack 2 in the first place?!
"\x74\x68\x65\x70\x72\x65\x7a\x39\x38";
confx only reduced the mouse into 640x480-Box but did not make the system work.
Flux works at the beginning, but I can not start aplications like firefox or so (system crashes).
But now I know why it does not work properly as I meanwhile heard, that my Laptop needs 256MB RAM for BT2 ...
same prob with my pc desktop, xconf doesn't help much, i freezed sooner or later. i use my laptop to experiment now.
cheers
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