Ubuntu questions

[czahn2001]

I was wondering if you could help me.

Okay I have ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04. I have some older versions. I can get 6.10 and 7.04 to work. but when I try to run 7.10 on my pc it does everything fine but when it gets to the desktop my screen goes black. like it is in sleep mode.

I tried to install ubuntu 8.04 but it says I have an io error,

If I were to get it to work .
would ubuntu 8.04 work on a pentium 3 450 MHZ 15 gig hard drive 384 ram and Dell ATI Rage 128 Pro 16MB AGP VGA Video Card - 2G813 Would it work.

One other question if I use the upgrade way of using ubuntu 7.10 from 7.04 will it work with my video card. This card, Dell ATI Rage 128 Pro 16MB AGP VGA Video Card - 2G813

[raghaven.kumar]

See if you have any graphic driver disabled in Restricted Driver Manager ?

[czahn2001]

I checked that and it says I have no drive restrictions. What can I do. Ifg U pgrade from 7.04 will I still be able to see the desktop on the newer version . will I be able to see my desktop when I update to 7.10

[raghaven.kumar]

im not sure why your desktop is not showing
so i cant recommend upgrade.

however, you can check /var/log/messages for any errors
if none try Upgrade

[devils casper]

Try to reconfigure GUI.
Execute this

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[czahn2001]

It said permission denied what does that mean

[czahn2001]

What does this mean


Users of PowerPC machines, and users of any computer with multiple video ↑
│ devices, should specify the BusID of the video card in an accepted ▮
│ bus-specific format. ▒
│ ▒
│ Examples: ▒
│ ▒
│ ISA:1 ▒
│ PCI:0:16:0 ▒
│ SBUS:/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/SUNW,tcx@2,800000 ▒
│ ▒
│ ▒
│ For users of multi-head setups, this option will configure only one of ▒
│ the heads. Further configuration will have to be done manually in the X ▒
│ server configuration file, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

When possible, this question has been pre-answered for you and you ▮
│ should accept the default unless you know it doesn't work. ↓
│
│ <Ok>

[devils casper]

It said permission denied what does that mean

Did you type exact command? Are you the only user or you have created multiple users?