Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Xubuntu won't work on my Dell

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 14:08:31 UTC 2008


2008/12/12 Peter Shepherd <thisway2freedom at gmail.com>:
> I recently purchased an pre-owned Dell 2.2 GHz tower through EBay. I can
> load SimplyMepis, FreeSpire 2.0, OpenSuse, Puppy, Vector, etc.. but when I
> load any of the Ubuntu family, it will not boot.  It goes to the flash
> screen after I log in and then just sits there.  Is there anything I can do.
> I really would like to get Kubuntu working on the system.
>
> Peter
>

My guess is that there is a problem with the drivers for your graphics
card. You have to give us some more information like version of
Kubuntu, graphics card, drivers used, monitor and your xorg.conf so we
have something to work with.

/ Jonas




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