<div>having an idea of what graphics chipset you have might be useful also...</div> <div> </div> <div>Pete<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 30/08/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Jones</b> <<a href="mailto:chris.jones@canonical.com">chris.jones@canonical.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi<br><br>STONE COLD wrote:<br>> unfortunately i cant provide the error message as it restarts straight away and i cant take a screen dump! <br><br>The machine reboots immediately after telling you it can't start X?<br><br>The error printed in the blue screen is useless anyway, it's just a<br>message telling you that it didn't work. What would be much more useful <br>is a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log after X has failed to start. If you<br>have a USB stick you should be able to mount it manually and copy the<br>log file there.<br><br>Cheers,<br>--<br>Chris Jones<br><a href="mailto:cmsj@canonical.com"> cmsj@canonical.com</a><br>  <a href="http://www.canonical.com">www.canonical.com</a><br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>'In letters of gold, on a snow-white kite, I will write "I Love You!" <br>And send it soaring high above you, for all to read!'<br><br>RIP Billy M 1957-1997