On Friday, July 01, 2011 18:37:41 Mark Wallace wrote: > I attempted to upgrade an older system from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 LTS. > Everything went fine until I rebooted. > > The screen showed that grub was working properly and the boot up screen > with the words Ubuntu 10.04 appeared normally. > > Then the screen went black. Not even a cursor. I booted up in base > graphics mode and first it said that no monitor was present and then it > said that it was but there was no usable configuration.
That sounds like you've run into a video mode bug. If you're using an nVidia videocard, and the Nouveau driver (used by default) doesn't work for you, you can blacklist it by adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: blacklist nouveau > I am guessing that the upgrade set a higher screen resolution than my > system can handle. I am also guessing that I could configure it in > command mode and then it would work. > > The bad news is that I don't know command well enough to do it. > > It was handled screen resolution 1024X768 with refresh rate of 51 no > problem with Ubuntu 9.04. > > Can somebody walk me through configuring my video. It's Ubuntu so root > is disabled. I have to do it as super user. Besides the above, examine the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to find out what video driver is used for X. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 6 - Arduino-palooza Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting Sep 7 - DIY 3D Printing and the Makerbot Thing-o-Matic
