Weird Question (Sorry, a bit long)

[Samps]

Liam Marshall wrote:
> How do I tell what version of Ubuntu I am running?
> 
> I had several versions of Ubuntu downloaded and burnt to cds
> 
> Both the version of 5.1 Breezy and Dapper Flight 5 that I downloaded 
> yesterday appear to work, but I have to use linux vga=771 in order to 
> run the installation on my laptop.  When I do, things appear to go fine 
> until the unmount of installation cd and reboot.  At that point I get a 
> message about the xserver failing and would I like to see the output, 
> which I do not understand, then it tells me gdm has been disabled and to 
> fix it and then reenable x.  I have no idea how to do that


Liam Marshall wrote:
 > How do I tell what version of Ubuntu I am running?
 >
 > I had several versions of Ubuntu downloaded and burnt to cds
 >
 > Both the version of 5.1 Breezy and Dapper Flight 5 that I downloaded
 > yesterday appear to work, but I have to use linux vga=771 in order to
 > run the installation on my laptop.  When I do, things appear to go fine
 > until the unmount of installation cd and reboot.  At that point I get a
 > message about the xserver failing and would I like to see the output,
 > which I do not understand, then it tells me gdm has been disabled and to
 > fix it and then reenable x.  I have no idea how to do that


I've seen this one before....

I dismissed the X errors and logged in at a command line. Once in:


sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf


I located the the 'display' portion and changed 'driver=i810' to 
'driver=vesa', saved the xorg.conf and could then start X using...  startx


hope this helps

Samps