After Installation and Boot **black screen and mouse pointer

[rich_roast]

Ouch! Sounds like a bad install. Can you log on in text mode? To try this, hit ctrl+alt+F1 at any time after you see the login screen (I think)

[rich_roast]

Bad post by me, just figuring that if we could at least get to a command line we could try to fix things from there.

I'm no guru, but the following command is designed to rewrite your X configuration file and perhaps that will get things working:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

It is also possible to reconfigure X automatically with:

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sudo X -configure

You can kill the current (broken) x windows with:

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sudo killall gdm

and then try again with

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startx

without rebooting every five minutes. If a reboot's what you need, though

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sudo shutdown -r now

(don't know if you actually have to be root to reboot, but at that point who really cares?)