Dave (and All): The ubuntu usenet group is jumping with complaints just like mine. I guess that I was just too early. Apparently a patch was released yesterday (Monday) that broke (big time) the xserver. However, it took a reboot to make it happen. As I just installed my system and applied all the updates yesterday and this morning, when I rebooted, bingo!!! Apparently ubuntu has already posted a replacement update to correct this. And I thought I was the only one who broke good code (well, besides M$, that is). Thanks for your responses. Bob David A. Desrosiers wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 15:50 -0400, Bob Mariotti wrote: > >> My money is still on the on-board ATI graphics and/or LCD monitor >> combo. I've had issues with these with all distros from the get-go. >> Stange through that any and all install processes don't have an issue >> with them as the install graphics look just fine. And when I check >> the settings in the X11/xorg.conf the seem correct. Of course, then >> the only way to get any visual video is to change the driver to >> "vesa". >> > > So wait... is the problem with X? Or with booting the machine? They are > two totally separate, independent issues. Can you boot into mode 3? > (non-graphical, multi-user mode) > > Or does it fail to actually complete booting at some point? > > What does dmesg show when it fails? > > Related to your X issues, I've had nothing but great success with my ATI > adapters in Linux (and since that's all I happen to have here, laptops > and servers, I'm wed to them). > > Have you tried changing the driver to 'radeon' instead of the fglrx > driver in your xorg.conf? (i.e. use the OSS driver, not the proprietary > ATI driver). > > Is the proper kernel module loaded (agpgart, r300, etc.) > > I'd check inittab, force it into mode 3 (not mode 5) and see if you can > actually use the machine from that point. When X fails, can you ssh into > the machine and still function on it remotely? Or does it physically > lock up the hardware? > > So many avenues to check... > > >
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