problems with ubuntu

[robbo92]

okay here goes

i'm running a toshiba A350/O7C laptop

it's a centrino 2 dual-core 2.13Ghz with 4GB Ram and runs an ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3650.

i installed Jaunty yesterday, had things running fine, installed updates, rebooted AND . ...... when it booted all of my graphics were pixellated and fluoro green and pink.

so i rebooted again and after the Ubuntu splash load screen it went to a black screen with 2 Ubuntu logos in fluoro green.

so i restarted the computer using all different VGA settings and such, tried to autofix the graphics and SHAZAM, now all i get after the splash screen is a blank screen staring back at me.

sometimes the hard drive is still running, sometimes it's not.

i was going from 4 in the afternoon till 3 this morning trying every single prompt i could find to try and get the b*****d to work (scuse the french, frustrated aussie) but alas to no avail.

any help would be bonza.

kind regards
Rob

[darkrose0510]

Hi Rob, what part of Oz are you in?

There's an Aussie Ubuntu mailing list if you're interested, join here


In the meantime though, Ctrl + Alt + F1 will get you to a console; run

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

to stop and reconfigure the X server (graphics), then run

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

to restart the X server.

If there's still no joy, then Ctrl + Alt + F1 again and do:

$ sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

to edit the config file, go down to the device section and change the driver to vesa (and let us know what it was set to) then restart X again

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

if that works, copy the xorg.conf so you know where a good copy is, other wise ignore this and go to the next command

$ sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.good

Try ATI's own drivers (for better performance if they above worked, and as a last ditch attempt if it didn't)

$ sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx

restart the computer

$ sudo reboot

If the ATI driver didn't work and the vesa driver did, then do this to restore the vesa driver (and restart X)

$ sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.good /etc/X11/xorg.conf
$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

if there's no joy at all then come back and let us know what did happen.

[robbo92]

gday mate.

i'm from melbourne. and cheers i just signed up to the mailing list then.

i tried all of that and i still couldnt get it to boot. so i went back into vista (as i'm running multi-boot and there was no sign of ubuntu anywhere on the drive in any partition. so i reinstalled it in a new partition and havent had a problem since.

but that said i haven't run the updates yet. but my screen still pixellates and goes strange when i shut the lid on it. it's hard to describe. it looks kinda like an inversion of the colours.