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Put STEAM BigPicture mode at login screen
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Hi, I installed steam-login on ubuntu 12.04 just now, having found it here: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/how-to-login-to-steam-big-picture-mode-in-ubuntu Now after restarting my pc it boots to a black screen. I can't even use grub to boot into windo #13

Closed Holger321 closed 10 years ago

thor27 commented 10 years ago

try this: press ctrl+alt+f1 if you get a login prompt, make login with your user/password removes steam-login with: sudo apt-get remove --purge steam-login sudo apt-get autoremove

then restart your x server with:

sudo service lightdm restart

hope it helps!

Holger321 commented 10 years ago

Hi,

thanks for your response!

i tried ctrl+alt+f1- it doesn't help. The machine just behaves as if the monitor wasn't connected but I double-checked the cables. when I switch off the monitor and on again it says 'no signal'.

hm.

On 12/02/2013 07:58 PM, Thomaz de Oliveira dos Reis wrote:

try this: press ctrl+alt+f1 if you get a login prompt, make login with your user/password removes steam-login with: sudo apt-get remove --purge steam-login sudo apt-get autoremove

then restart your x server with:

sudo service lightdm restart

hope it helps!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/thor27/steam-login/issues/13#issuecomment-29646404.

thor27 commented 10 years ago

Ok, can you open the grub screen before computer starts ubuntu?

If yes, try to go to security mode and start a login shell and type those commands I said before.

Holger321 commented 10 years ago

Hi,

Solved! for some reason now it works again. Wow, I'm so relieved!

Just as an explanation: What I had done was to follow steams advice in adding some package sources and then updated the whole system. after that (without reboot since update manager didn't promt me to reboot) I installed your steam-login script and executed it. Then I saw that my game would work ok but still wanted to reboot. After that I got the black screen. Then after restarting around 15 times I didn't even get a bios or anything. Like the whole lcd wasn't working from the hardware side. Then after another book - without any measure done it started up normally.

So, that's all I can say to describe the thing as clearly ayss possible.

anyway thanks for the quick response and greetings from munich, Holger

On 12/02/2013 07:58 PM, Thomaz de Oliveira dos Reis wrote:

try this: press ctrl+alt+f1 if you get a login prompt, make login with your user/password removes steam-login with: sudo apt-get remove --purge steam-login sudo apt-get autoremove

then restart your x server with:

sudo service lightdm restart

hope it helps!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/thor27/steam-login/issues/13#issuecomment-29646404.

thor27 commented 10 years ago

Good to know it worked. I don't think that this was really related to steam login, maybe with updated packages you installed with steam.