Yeah, I found some solutions while perusing through various forums and googling. Some peoples' problems were fixed by simply enabling the driver while in failsafe mode (not so for me unfortunately). So I looked around a bit more and found that I can download an updated driver from ATI for my hardware (ATI RADEON Xpress 200 Integrated Graphics), so after half an hour and downloading the 61 mb installation file, I found that I need extra packages in order to use the installation file! What a nightmare... Anyway, I also found some forums stating you can get 2D hardware acceleration fairly easily, but 3D acceleration requires installing the driver mentioned above and jumping through all the hoops. Does the fix you're pointing me to here allow both 2D and 3D? I don't forsee needing 3D at this point, but I'd like to know in the future. Oh, and what's a good resource for teaching myself all about linux. I haven't had time to look around too much so far to familiarize myself with it, but if you know of a good place to start it'd be much appreciated! Thanks by the way!
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Esteve Olm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same problem and found a solution in this bug: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/148902 > Start a failure safe session and follow the steps described here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/RadeonXpress > > -- > Ubuntu won't login > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252767 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "xorg" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > After a clean install of Ubuntu 8.04.1, the system will present the login > screen on first boot. The login information is entered in correctly. The > login music plays, the busy wheels spins and then the screen flashes and > dumps right back to the login screen with the little drum beat. > > This happens over and over no matter how many times it's tried. Updates > were installed through the alt f2 terminal screen where a text base login > works. > > Updates didn't help... > > Also, booting from the LiveCD results in a infinate loop of login screen > countdown (which I shouldn't even see on a LiveCD), attempt to load desktop, > then dumping back to the login screen. > > Systems specs. > eMachines w3410 (MSI MS-7145 motherboard) > AMD 64 3200+ > 1GB Memory > 100GB IDE HD > ATI RADEON Xpress 200 Intergrated video > Ubuntu Hardy 32-bit 8.04.1 > Linksys 54g wireless > -- Daniel C. Levings -- Ubuntu won't login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252767 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
