New System Problem

[Young]

Derek Broughton 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.
> 
Derek,

Using the 8.04-desktop-i386 live cd I compared the 2 xorg.conf files 
that I found, one under the file system (live cd?) and the other on the 
hard drive. They were identical. They seems to be very generic, and 
matched what I found on this system.
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Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
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Did I look at the correct files? I didn't understand the part about the 
USB stick, and I've never "booted to single user (recovery) mode" which 
is why I approached it the way I did.

Mark