hello Aart AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ / 2 GHz ( Dual-Core ) 1 GB - DDR II SDRAM - nicht-ECC - 667 MHz - PC2-5300 display controller : ati tech unknown device 5874 ethernet controller : broadcom corp. netxtreme bcm5755 vga compatible controller : ati tech inc rs482(radeon xpress 200) donny <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Aart Koelewijn <<a href="mailto:aart@mtack.xs4all.nl">aart@mtack.xs4all.nl</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">On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:27:04 +0200, Donny George wrote: > hello Aart > > thanks for the mail > > 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 ? </div>Hello Donny first, at the moment you post with text + html. Could you switch the html off, it gives a lot off garble in my newsreader (I follow the discussion in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user, which I find easier then all those emails) I saw you already tried the command lshw, but it did not work for you. There are a number off log-files you can look at. The x-server itself has /var/log/Xorg.0.log. As most logfiles, it is long, but it may pay to study it, it may mention somewhere why X would not start. At least it will mention your graphic hardware somewhere, and that is information we will need to try to find a solution to your problems. Another command I find usefull is "dmesg | less". This will give a complete log off your booting process and almost all hardware found in your computer will be mentioned there somewhere. Any problem during the booting will be mentioned there too. We will need some information about your hardware to troubleshoot this. I did have a simular problem with an almost new ASUS F3M laptop, but the solution I found will not be the right solution for an old desktop, or for another laptop. Please give us that information, someone on teh list might have (almost) the same hardware and a solution to your problem. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> 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> </div></div></blockquote></div>