Ubuntu 9.04 Video driver problem

[Minifig]

I was trying to update my video drivers, but when I restarted my computer there were a lot of lines across the screen and I couldn't select anything.
I can boot to recovery mode, but auto x-fix doesn't fix anything.
What should I do to fix this problem?
I have an ATI Radeon 550.
[edit] hmm... after extensive searching, I found this person who had the exact same problem: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=648770

[teenytinylinuxgrl]

Have a look at this. It offers a lot of help.

Amy

[Minifig]

Sorry, but what in that could help?




If I don't find a solution soon, then I'm just going to re-install from scratch.

[D-cat]

She tried, she's only 13.

What I'm guessing from your description is that the new driver decided to use a frequency outside of your monitor's range, but just barely.

Did you try the sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg ? That should bring you back to defaults. If it doesn't work, could you please then show me the output of

grep -i Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

What I might have you do temporarily is force the vesa driver so you can at least boot into a GUI, then post the whole xorg.conf. First though I want to see what it's currently using.

BTW, what monitor do you have?

[Minifig]

I have a Sun microsystems CRT monitor.
I allready started installing from scratch btw. :/ (so I can't show the output of those)

I am now getting grub error #2 though.

[D-cat]

Grub borked... it's looking for files in the wrong place.

Download and boot with SuperGrub; it can fix that problem pretty easily.
Super Grub Disk Homepage

[Minifig]

burned the SuperGrub disk, but it won't boot?
It says:

Verifying DMI Pool Data ...........
Boot from CD : GRUB Loading stage1.5.


GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 2

I am trying to install Ubuntu 9.04 beside windows...
Windows is on IDE0, Ubuntu is on IDE1.
I'm very confused. I thought Linux was going to be easy to switch over to. maybe I should just go back to using Microsoft products...

[D-cat]

*Sigh* It's not supposed to be this hard. I think your BIOS is suddenly giving GRUB indigestion. I can't think of what changed that would prevent SuperGrub from booting, where you were able to boot prior to the attempted reinstall.

Booting a Windows CD to the recovery console and typing fixmbr at the prompt will let your computer boot Windows again. If it's an issue of corrupted code in a MBR, it may able to be fixed after that. I don't know though, I'm flying blind. I'm just working with the theory that only hard drive contents changed, and the only things that would mess up even SuperGrub at the boot stage might be misreading MBR or boot sector contents.

[Minifig]

Is the recovery console in the setup?
I put in the Windows disk, and it booted up to the setup, then gave me this error:

File mountmgr.sys caused an unexpected error (32768 ) at
line 5964 in d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\setup.c.

Press any key to continue.

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE ANY KEY?!?! (joking )
I can't even seem to get my Windows back now

[coopstah13]

this is looking like hardware failure, your cdrom is having issues reading discs, either that or your discs are damaged