I'm not sure what I've got. I also don't have it hooked up to the internet. I got it as a throw in when I bought the computer that I wanted and I figured my six year old could play his online games with it. Let me see if the proprietary drivers were ever activated.
Right now I've got three computers hooked up doing different things and I'm not paying close enough attention to it. I'll ask follow up in the morning. On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 19:44 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > 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 -- Mark Robert Mark Wallace Tita P Wallace 200 Fitch Street Unit 26-135 Welland, Ontario L3C 4V9 (905) 963-0926 _______________________________________________ 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
