[LinuxBIOS] black screen of death

Corey Osgood corey.osgood at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 20:59:17 CEST 2007


seems you probably have the wrong mailing list, this one is for the
linuxbios project (www.linuxbios.org). you're probably looking for the
X.org mailing list (http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg)

-Corey

samuel pattuzzi wrote:
> oh! its come back to haunt me, all the way from windows. well in truth
> it isnt my computer that is having the promblem, its my uncles. we are
> in italy for our summer holidays (where my uncle lives) and im trying
> to install ubuntu for him.
> the problem seems to me, from the research i have done, to be to do
> with the x server. my uncle had tried to install ubuntu on his own but
> he had found the problem that when ubuntu finish loading the screen
> goes black and the computer stops responding (even to ctrl alt f1). i
> tried to install ubuntu using a text install and all goes smooth till
> it comes to booting ubuntu when the loading bar gets to the end the
> screen blacks out. i have yet to see gnome from this pc. i have also
> tried to run a mandriva live cd i have and that works fine! but i dont
> want mandriva, i want ubuntu!! my uncle had his old grafics card about
> so i tried this out, however my efforts where to no avail. i got the
> messega that x server failed to load. i tried to reconfigure the xorg
> with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" but i guess i got it wrong
> because there was no change. i put the newer card back in and it acted
> as if it still had the other card, i guess this is because i
> configured the x server wrong. it tells me it cant find a device. the
> card im using is and asus 9250 and the screen is an acer AL1716s.
> here in italy i have very limited access to the internet, my uncle
> hasnt got broadband, so please consider this in your answers.
> do i need to reconfigure the xserver, or is it another problem?
> are there some drivers i should download for the asus card?
> -sam
>
>   





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