No display after upgrade to 9.04

Bob Cortez rjcortez at gmail.com
Fri May 8 08:00:26 UTC 2009


On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Bob Cortez wrote:
>> I'll retry the recovery option.  How do you reboot when it goest to
>> the blank screen.  I don't like doing the power off option if I can
>> help it.
>
> Switch to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F2 and reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del.
> If switching to a text console doesn't work you would really need the
> power off option.

Ok still no display.  I can however get command line with network
connection.  What I I'm thinking is that I need to open third party
repositories so that I can apt-get the display driver. Does that make
sense, and if so, how do I do it?

Thanks,
Bob




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