New System Problem

[Young]

Pastor JW wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2008 08:08:19 pm Young wrote:
>> I just built a new system and installed Ubuntu 8.04.01-alternate-amd64.
>>
>> The system boots into a fractured graphics image with the Ubuntu logo
>> repeating 5 times across the screen. Each repeat is just horizontal
>> lines like a bad version of the AT&T globe logo. There's also a lot of
>> garbage on the screen, and no evidence of a cursor pointer.
>>
>> The 8.04.1-desktop-amd64 suffers the same problem.
>>
>> The install ran fine & the 8.04-desktop-i386 runs in live mode without a
>> problem.
>>
>> Memory tests ran without a problem for over 75 minutes, but with 4GB I
>> wasn't going to wait for it to finish.
>>
>> 	Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 Allendale 2.2GHz 1MB L2 Cache
>>
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> I am not understanding at all.  If you have the graphics ability, why in the 
> world are you using the alternate install which does not support graphics???  
> The reason for the alternate install is to put Ubuntu on a machine which has 
> limited or obsolete graphics abilities such as older boxes and/or server 
> boxes.  What you are needing is the stuff which can read your more advanced 
> graphics and implement it, missing from the alternate install as it really is 
> most useful to CLI user.  
> 

I've never heard anything about the Alternate Install having fewer 
graphics drivers. I always thought it traded the live capability for 
more choices. I've used the Alt installer (i386 version) before so I 
could better manage the way I wanted partitions set up.
Besides, I couldn't use the desktop/live version because it suffers from 
the same problem.

Mark