Unable to use Ubuntu 8.04 live CD

[NoOp]

On 08/07/2008 10:13 AM, Jerry Alber wrote:

> NoOp,
> 
> Did you get my email that I sent on the 5th? Just incase, I am repeating 
> it below. Once I use startx in the Ubuntu Alternate CD, I checked the 
> logs and it seems to recognize the Raedon graphics card and the LCD 
> monitor that I am using. If you are too busy right now to deal with this 
> problem since I can see by the number of times your name appears in the 
> mailing list, you are very far from being idle.

I did reply - perhaps you missed:

> > NoOp,
> >
> > I did the above but still can not log back in. I did make a hard
copy of
> > the xorg-conf file before I did the above. After doing the above, I
took
> > another look and it was still the same. The odt attachment contains
both
> > the Ubuntu 8.04.1 alternate and Ubuntu-Studio 7.10 xorg-conf files. The
> > latter is much more explicit than the former Ubuntu 8.04.1.

That's because the new "improved" xorg doesn't generate an explicit
xorg.conf, only the one that you see now.  So, let's go ahead and do
one; log back in using FAILSAFE Gnome, then Alt-F2 again and enter: gksu
displayconfig-gtk
Set your terminal and radon card, then log out and log back in (you'll
probably need to use the FAILSAFE Gnome again. One in have a look at
your xorg.conf, it should now have details regarding your driver
terminal, screen etc.

> >
> > Ubuntu 8.04.1 does not seem to have trouble finding the Radeon driver;
> > it's just not registering  with the xorg.conf file.
> >
> > Where is the debconf database? Is there a way to populate it?

/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/configure-debian
But the above will (displayconfig-gtk) will generate the explicit xorg.conf.