hey everyone, i have just downloaded backtrack2 and i followed the instuction to boot it up, i get to enter the username and password which are root/toor, then i enter startx at which point the screen just goes black. i tried this on my desktop which doesnt have a wireless card installed yet, i just wanted to have a look at the GUI, would this be why the screen just goes black? im getting my laptop back today which has a wireless card installed so ill try it on that. but does anybody know why the screen is going black on me on my desktop?

i really want to look into backtrack2 to test my wireless network's security

hope someone can help

cheers

It'll be your GFX card and the contents of xorg.conf - have a muller around in there, and make sure it's set to use the 'vesa' driver.

thanks for the reply scribble, how do i find out what graphic card is in my pc and how do i configure it to use the visa driver, sorry if thats a really basic question but im a total linux virgin

hi mate,

try running xconf before you do startx,

You could also try flux instead of startx

if that doesn't work you can find xorg.conf in /etc/X11

you want to change the section that looks like

Section "Device"
Identifier "GEForce4 GO 440"
Driver "nv"
EndSection

Change the bit in quotes after driver to vesa

You are going to have to do a fair bit of reading if you want to get this to work im afraid, if you do get it to work
there is still a few commands you will need to learn just to get the wireless up and running. TBH you don't even need the
graphical display cos everything you do will be commands typed into the terminal. (i'm assuming your trying to crack WEP
and things like that)

good luck

Actually, yeah - he's right - there's not that much point in getting the GUI working, really, as pretty much all of the tools are terminal based, anyway.



e2a: Not to piss on your bonfire or anything, but I really don't think that you're going to get much out of security suites like BT2 if you don't know any Linux to start with - you'd be much better off installing Linux as your desktop OS for a while and familiarising yourself with how to use it, and how it's structured before trying to use tools like these.

ok lads, good advice, can anyone of you recommend some good linux forums for a noob, there are so many !!