nVidia GE Force 6200 Turbo Cache video problems

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ronnie <priswell at comcast.net> wrote:

>
>        I followed your instructions. Entered Grub and clicked on the entry
> with the 'vmlinuz'. There was a line that said
>
> ro quiet splash
>
> and I added 'single' to it:
>
> ro quiet splash single
>
> then booted. That took me to a menu that said:
>
> resume (description)
> clean (description)
> dpkg (description)
> fsck (description)
> root (description)
> xfix (description)
>
> Hm. I figured I was looking for "root", but when I tried to use the down
> arrow key to reach it, it only overwrote "resume" with "^[[B" (without
> quotes). Tab didn't work. Pg Dn didn't work. Just got system beeps
> and/or more overwriting text.
>
> Afterwards, I said, shucks, I don't have much working room, but I *can*
> get into xorg.conf, so I booted to desktop, signed in, and hit
> Ctrl-Alt-F3 and opened the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with vi. . .and it
> was empty. Any other ideas?
>
>


Your xorg.conf is empty, that's why  your screen is full of static!
Get it?  No valid config -> shitty results.

I'm a RedHat user and on those systems there is a program to create a
new "xorg.conf". system-config-desktop.

In Ubuntu, I have never had a trouble with the config I get from the
usual install, and I'm somewhat inclined to think you should just
re-install and get it right.  But there's some benefit in actually
learning how to fix these things.  I found this website about it:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/xorg

That pre-supposes you are able to get a terminal running, however.

Please try harder to get running without X starting.  It is the only
way to reliably address your problem.
Apparently, my recollection on how to get into "single user mode" did
not work for you, so Google to find out more about how it ought to be
done on Ubuntu systems.

This guy's experience matches my memory:

http://www.arsgeek.com/2006/09/14/linux-newbies-single-user-mode-or-how-to-un-your-system/

I don't have any idea what's going wrong for you. On my system, it
takes me to a prompt where I can type commands.

I have no idea what you mean "booted to desktop", that seems to imply
X11 is working, but you said it doesn't.


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Paul E. Johnson
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