John Jason Jordan wrote: > The Ubuntu forums are massive compared to any other distro, and they > have a pretty good search utility. I'd recommend searching on "VIA" to > see what turns up.
Nothing. > If nothing turns up, post yourself in an appropriate > forum. I've had excellent results posting about various problems that I > have had over the years. > I have found some of my answers using that route. I'll give VIA a try in the area where 10.04 login loop resides. > Bear in mind also that from the Grub boot menu the Recovery Mode will > boot you to a command line. I have found this extremely handy when > fixing video problems because it allows you to log in without loading > X. From the command line you can use wget and dpkg or apt-get to > install different video drivers or reconfigure the video. > One of the things that worked in the past was to get a command line login and run: sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm Unfortunately, that did not work this time. I'll include that in my Ubuntu Forum post and see if anyone has other ideas. > I also find it interesting that your video works in 9.10 but not 10.04. > This smells like someone changed the video driver for 10.04, and > apparently not for the better. Maybe you can find the older driver and > install it instead of the new one. To find a driver that works try live > CDs for other versions of Ubuntu or other distros. If you find one > where the video works fine, check out which video driver it is using. > Since if works fine in 9.10, then I'll see if I can figure out what to put where and give that a try. Thanks for the ideas. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
