video problem on install

[uriah heep]

I did reinstall and the monitor problem remains unchanged.  However, when
booting I have the opportunity to go into repair mode and launch a root
partican shell which I think will allow me to execute the commands you gave
earlier. Would you be so kind as to explain to me how to enter them and
treat me as a total novice?

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 August 2009 22:39:32 uriah heep wrote:
> > 64 bit 9.04.
> I would *strongly* advice you install the 32 bit -- if you have the option.
> 64bit has been a total disaster for me... I am going to format and install
> Karmic 32 when it comes out.
>
> > is there a way during the install I can tell it to set up to
> > avoid the video problem?
> No idea... It should use the 'nv' driver (or some framebuffer voodoo) but I
> don't recall if you can set anything manually.
> Just remember to try switch to a terminal (ctrl + alt + F1) and then you
> can
> go edit that xorg.conf file again.
>
> Best of luck.
> \d
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