[SOLVED] black and white bars.

[miltontl]

i am using a emachine w2925 desktop and i installed the newest ubuntu. and it randomally goes to a black screen with white bars vertically half way down the screen that flash between bars and a black screen every few seconds

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Which Graphics Card do you have?
Execute this in Terminal :

lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

[miltontl]

Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)

[devils casper]

Press Alt+F2 and type this

gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

* Its Capital X in X11.
Above command will open xorg.conf file in Gedit with root privileges. If there are any contents in files, delete those.
Poste following contents in file, save it and reboot machine.

Section "Device"
       Identifier "Configured Video Device"
       Driver    "vesa"  
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
         Identifier "Configured Monitor"
         HorizSync 31.5 - 70.0
         VertRefresh 50 - 160
 EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Monitor "Configured Monitor"
        Device "Configured Video Device"
        DefaultDepth 24
        Subsection "Display"
             Depth 24
             Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" 
        EndSubsection
EndSection

[miltontl]

i havent tried what you said yet but, I will post a picture of my issue incase anybody else had the problem

[miltontl]

just ran the code and it seems to have fixed it. Thanks for the help!

[devils casper]

Glad to help you !
Do start a new thread if you have any other question.