new vid card - machine halts

Matthew Kuiken matt.kuiken at verizon.net
Thu Jul 6 05:29:44 UTC 2006


Ken N9VV wrote:
> Hi, I installed a 64MB Nvidia GeForce4 MX4000 PCI card in my PC. It 
> works perfectly (really beautiful) in Windows.
>
> But when I TRY to boot into Ubuntu, the "unpacking of the OS" step is 
> where the system freezes. I have no keyboard or mouse input. Only a 
> hard reboot (power cycle) brings me back to the Grub menu.  The system 
> was working perfectly with the mobo Intel chip display for both 
> Windows and Ubuntu. I (mistakenly) thought I could change PCI cards 
> and run Ubuntu in some crippled VGA mode whilst I set the right X 
> parameters. But, no joy.
>
> (1) how do I boot to single user and
> (2) try to convince Ubuntu
> (3) and X that I have a new vid card?
>

Boot the line in the Grub menu that has (recovery mode) at the end of 
it.  This will boot single user into a root shell.

Run the command:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

reboot, and hopefully everything will be good.

HTH,
-Matt





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