On 9 May 2012 14:21, Philip Stubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > What graphics card do you have? Do you have the correct driver > installed? Can I suggest you run 'lspci' and make sure that your > graphics card is seen by Linux.
I have a AMD Radeon HD6630 2GB card, and the processor is: Intel Core i5-2430M Processor When I look in lspci I see the following: matt@mariachi:~$ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Whistler [AMD Radeon HD 6600M Series] (rev ff) Then in "Settings > Details > Graphics" I see: Driver: Intel Sandybridge Mobile Experience: standard which suggests that it's seeing the inbuilt chip ok... I think!? You could also look into /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see what X is doing on > startup. Nothing obvious in there.. but I will check next time immediately after boot. One thing I like to try is to stop gdm/lightdm whatever, and then run > startx. If it fails it often gives a helpful message. Good suggestion! thanks... Will try it next boot. Thanks Philip!
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