On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 17:46 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote:
> When the system rebooted, I saw the graphical boot stuff with the
> messages scrolling on the brown screen under the Ubuntu logo. Then
> the screen went blank except for a non-blinking cursor in the top left
> of the screen, then I heard the tom-tom drum sound that usually
> accompanies the opening of the logon screen ... and that's it.
>
> The system hung with the blank screen there and nothing else
> happening. The system responds to pings, but does not visibly respond
> to any keyboard input (e.g. trying to select other ttys).
Don't suppose you have an ATI video card? I upgraded to dapper and got
much the same problem with my ATI mobility X300. I fixed it by rebooting
in single user mode and switching X to use the fglrx (non free) driver;
- apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
- edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , and in the Device section for the video
card, change the Driver line from
Driver "ati"
to
Driver "fglrx"
And then reboot.
--
Pete
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