<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Funny, but on my desktop (with NVIDIA) I had no problems (other than UBUNTU installed the boot loader on the wrong drive… My Fault, forgot I had set the BIOS to boot from the second drive…)… but the Lenovo laptop has Intel graphics… <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><br> While I’m replying… I have a Happaug tv card in the desktop… wondering how to get that working… probably should start another thread…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gary Jarrel<br> <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:51 PM<br> <b>To:</b> Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: Upgrade from 9.04 -> 9.10 Video Failure<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal>I've had a similar problem with 9.10 on my desktop and NVIDIA cards, seemed like there was a problem installing the NVIDIA drivers. <o:p></o:p></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>From what I remember I had install the NVIDIA drivers in the console (from the repository) then run the nvidia-xconfig and make sure that the right drivers were in the xorg.conf<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>My last reinstall of 9.10 was over the weekend on the desktop, what I did this time around was save the xorg.conf file from my previous install, freshly reinstall 9.10, X started using the open source nvidia driver, I then installed the restricted driver and before the reboot dropped the previously saved xorg.conf file into /etc/X11.<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>I have 2 monitors + TV connected to my Desktop, so amongst knowing that my previous xorg.conf was already working I don't have to run nvidia-settings and layout all my monitors again. <o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>Hope this is of some help.<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>Gayr<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Michael Comperchio <<a href="mailto:fazoogled@gmail.com">fazoogled@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Ok, So I’m back to try Ubuntu again… I have a Lenovo g550 laptop that I want to play Linux on. I could not install 9.10 from the downloaded media. Ok, technically it did install, but when the system reboots I get a blank screen. Apparantly X not working… I can successfully install 9.04. I get X just fine. So, I got all the available ugrades to 9.04, then decided to do the whole OS upgrade… and once again no X!<o:p></o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Any Suggestions?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Michael<o:p></o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br> --<br> ubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> 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><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>