Ubuntu on Biostart GeForce6100-M9 motherboard X has strange action

Alex Janssen alex at ourwoods.org
Fri Aug 24 23:10:28 UTC 2007


Alex Janssen said the following on 08/23/2007 08:18 PM:
> I found this motherboard on the community docs as working, so I got one.
> Ubuntu 7.04 goes through the install process fairly well even though the 
> screen res is 800x600 and too low to see the OK buttons on the bottom to 
> the dialog boxes.
> But upon the first reboot I discovered that I cannot log into X because 
> every key I hit to type in my name causes it to cycle to the next lower 
> resolution. 
>
> I followed the instructions at 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper?highlight=%28nvidia%29%7C%28line%29%7C%28install%29%7C%28command%29 
> to manually installed the nvidia-glx driver thinking that would fix it,  
> but it still does the same thing.  I'm not seeing the Nvidia logo as I 
> usually do with this driver on another system.
>
> I'm not sure what to do at this point.
>
> Alex
>
>   
Does anyone have a clue?
Alex

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