On 12/12/2009, at 3:29 PM, Mike Andy wrote: > ok so I've just got the time to try your ideas out and here's where > i'm at with booting into mythbuntu/ubuntu 9.10 > > still no good! > > as suggested i can't access /var/lib/Xorg.0.log because once the > screen starts flashing i can't input anything, i can only see the > commend line, the black, command line, black etc...
I had a similar issue with 9.10, but different brand video card. (it was fixed a day or to after release) The way I "fixed" it was to ssh into the box and kill gdm, the old behaviour was if X died a few times in a row, to stop trying to restart it. Didn't seem to be the case this time. If you can't ssh in, at the grub prompt when you first turn on the computer there should be at least 2 linux boot options, the second one should be safe or rescue mode, I forget the exact term. Try that to see if you can then access the console and look at the logs. -- http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ http://barrang.com.au/linux/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
