hey nils thnx for the mail so in short is this come kind of graphics card problem and i assume that since i am not connected to the internet may be i cant download the driver for the graphics card either. am i reasoning in the right direction. is this a too simple problem or something really complex. donny <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Nils Kassube <<a href="mailto:kassube@gmx.net">kassube@gmx.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">Donny George wrote: > yes i do have a usb stick </div>OK, then please enter the command "tail -f /var/log/messages" and then plug the USB stick in. After a moment there will be some messages like this (I removed the beginning of each line for readability): usb 6-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 usb 6-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Ut163 USB2FlashStorage 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] 7897087 512-byte hardware sectors (4043 MB) sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] 7897087 512-byte hardware sectors (4043 MB) sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sdc: sdc1 sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 The important line is this: " sdc: sdc1" where it tells you the device name of the USB stick. The sdc1 is the relevant name. Your USB stick may get a different device name depending on the number of disks already known to the system. Now use the command sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt where you replace the name sdc1 with the name found on your system when you plugged it in. Then you can copy the log file with the command sudo cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /mnt Finally you should umount the USB stick with the command sudo umount /mnt and when you see the command prompt again you may unplug the USB stick. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > and with lspci command > > the display controller : ati tech. unknown device 5874 </div>Sorry, I can't comment on ati cards. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> Nils -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>