Problems after install on amd64

[Henti Smith]

Alex Mandel wrote:
>> ASUS A8V-E SE motherboard
>> 1024 MB RAM (not sure what make) (gentoo worked fine on this system)
>> 160G SATA Drive (for linux)
>> Monitor I'm not sure .. it's branded as a Mecer H113 which I know is 
>> a South African specific brand
>> I'll have a look later on what the serial on the back brings up on 
>> google ...
>>
>> I'll reinstall again and boot into single user mode and grab all the 
>> relevant information I can find ..and send it as well.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
> I have a very similar system, the only difference being and ATI Radeon 
> based card. Been running since Hoary just fine.
>
> One thing to try is if you put your install disc in and boot, there is 
> a recovery mode. This should allow you terminal access to the system 
> so you can tinker with the xorg settings. A few things to ponder:
> 1. Does the live CD work?

yes it does ... I can get into the system fine in single user mode, as 
long as I don't start up X

> 2. Are you running the Nvidia drivers or generic VGA?

not sure ... new to ubuntu ;P xorg.conf  loads the nv driver .. which is 
the nvidia drivers ... tho lspci doens't detect the VGA card correctly

> 3. Check your video card documentation and online for the max 
> boundaries or your sync and stay within those.

800x600 doesn't even work ;P and I'm sure a 256MB nvidia can handle that ;P

> 4. Do you need any special boot parameters like a frame buffer for the 
> LCD, if you look at the boot options on the CD you'll see an example 
> like vga=771 or vga=779. I don't fully understand how this works but 
> my laptop LCD I use vga=771 on the end of the boot parameter in 
> /boot/grub/menu.lst that I'm trying to load.
> Note if you want to try lots of options you can test by I think 
> pressing 'e' during the grub menu to get a one time boot option tweak. 
> Then if it works for some reason add it to the boot file to make it 
> permanent.

the bootup works fine on cd's and install ... I run into problems only 
once X starts

H