Hi all, I was attempting to install Ubuntu Studio 9.04 on a friends machine tonight. After install and reboot we had a GUI.
However, we had serious GUI freezes (would not respond to any commands - period - including alt+shift+s+u+b) and found that xorg.conf was empty! The freezes were quite common (trying anything such as updating the packages would cause the GUI to freeze and become globally unresponsive). Rebooting and entering in recovery mode, then using xfix did nothing but enter a small amount of none specific info in the xorg.conf file. The machine has a fairly ordinary ASUS mobo and has two nvidia cards which are connected by a cable (SLI, said my friend. Me? Clueless. He has XP on the other partition). Installing the nvidia drivers using the ready made option (pop up appearing after install) left us with NO X after reboot. Ordinarily I've been able to resolve these issues reasonably quickly. When I've managed to log in using just a terminal, I've found xorg populated by some information, but the machine still unable to find a screen. This is the first time I've installed 9.04 and I'm confused as to what is going on. I'm curious as to the reason why there's be an empty xorg.conf file anyway and whether the cable-connected dual nvidia cards (they're about two years old. Identical models. 512Mbs. Can't recall the exact specs) would play some part in this - though I can't think of why. He has only one monitor connected. It was rather disappointing and I'm considering installing 8.04 instead, but am curious as to whether anyone has had a similar experience and whether anyone can point me in the right direction regarding these problems. Regards, Patrick -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 www.youcantdothatinlinux.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
