Injec
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startx black screen :(

Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:52 pm

Hello guys,
I made a school project on my raspi. Now i tried to run the desktop mode just for fun (with startx) but it didn't work (just a black screen). So i decided to change the options, that the desktop mode is running with system start (which wasn't my best idea). Now i have a black screen when i start the raspi. I dont really need a desktop mode, so this is not a problem, but i need to run some python scripts on the pi, and now i cant do this... is there any way for me to deactivate this mode and turn back to the normal console? Tomorrow i have to show my results to my teacher, and i guess he doesn't really believe me...

Sry for my bad english,
It would be Really nice if someone could help me :)

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Re: startx black screen :(

Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:51 pm

Use "sudo raspi-config" from the command line.
Select Option 3, "Boot Options"
You can choose either boot to console or boot to desktop. And you have the option of autologin for either one. Try doing that and see if it fixes the problem.

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Re: startx black screen :(

Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:55 pm

try ctrl-f2 for new login screen or login via ssh
then you can sudo raspi-config
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