hello Aart thanks for the mail <div class="gmail_quote"><div> i reconfigured the xscreen then did the normal boot but the problem still persists. the installation from the live cd happened without any problem, everything just went well. how do i possibly find the hardware now. i saw the option to go to text mode once i logged into the recovery mode. wat would be the command to display the hardware page by page. is it something like lspci ? donny </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="Wj3C7c"> > </div></div>Hello Donny the first thing to try would be to boot in recovery mode. Shortly after you power-up your computer you will see something like "Press [ESC] for boot menu", press your [ESC] button then. Now you will get a menu with boot options. Boot the kernel after which is written "recovery mode" (second entry, I think). At the end of the boot process you will now get a menu with 4 options. Choose the one which mentions something like "reconfigure x-server". After that you can let the boot- process continu to the normal log-in screen and see if it works now. If this does not work, we will need more information about your hardware. BTW, did your computer boot without problems from the live-cd, or did you install Ubuntu in an other way, and then, how? Aart -- 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> </blockquote></div>