[mailtwogopal]

Hi all,

i had dual boot till this morning due to some files which were in windows were essential. So i backed up all those things in a CD. i have completely installed ubuntu 8.04 in my machine today (1 hour ago) by giving the option while using boot CD "Guided - SCSI (0,0,0) 80GB SATA" and i got ubuntu completely installed wiping out the Windows xp which i had. now in my top panel of ubuntu i have noticed 209 updates are available. the problem is some days before when i had dual boot (windows & ubuntu) i got kernel update to 19 and after updates i got only blank screen. Regarding that i posted threads here and some what satisfying reply i got. i was using kernel 18 then using grub loader.

My questions is as follows:

Presently i got (after completely installing after wiping windows) the kernel version 16 generic, and in my update list i found kernel update to 19. Please tell me if i got kernel update to 19 will i get the blank screen again. What i can do now, shall i go for kernel update to 19 or not? Please suggest me regarding this. Also tell me what is the command to get details on xorg which is presently in my PC. i can post the results of that command (if u guys gimme) so that u can suggest me probably to get kernel update or not. Also tell me is it a bug in ubuntu that after every kernel update everyone gets blank screen. please help me, am confused and of course i dint installed any updates yet after installing Ubuntu hardy heron.

NOTE: i haven't installed restricted drivers (ATI graphics driver Radeon xpress 200) yet.

My xorg settings are as below

here is the o/p of "cat etc/X11/xorg.conf":

gopal@gopal-desktop:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

[geniuz]

Upgrading kernel imho is generally a bad idea, when I used ubuntu/debian it gave me nothing but trouble, X died and most of my apps were in panic.

If you have a working desktop computer without flaws, there's no point in updating...if I were you I would just wait for the next stable release of Ubuntu if you really want to be up to date. Although I don't see the point in being "up to date" if everything's just working fine.

[mailtwogopal]

thanks a lot. CLOSED.

[bryansmith]

Try installing the update and if it doesn't work, simply boot back into your older kernel.

As someone who compiles kernel's himself, I tend to break things alot .

Bryan