New System Problem

[Derek Broughton]

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.

That is X trying to find a valid modeline.  When I resume from hibernate, I
get three different settings like this - I see the one you describe, I see
one with nothing recognizable, just noise, and I see one with three
fractured images of my last desktop.  Then it settles down into the correct
mode.  If you never get to that point then, simply, X hasn't found any
valid modes.

If you can get to a console, you might try finding the xorg.conf that the
Live CD is using and just dump it onto a USB stick, then copy from the USB
stick to the installed /etc/X11/.  If you can't get to a console, boot to
single user (recovery) mode.

>> 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

No its not.  The alternate install has always worked on my system - it used
to be necessary as the live CD didn't support my LVM setup (I don't know if
that's still true).

In this case, he's using the alternate CD because the "desktop" version
won't install at all.
-- 
derek