Is that done when I do a failsafe reboot? I put 9,10 back into the system so that I can do more with it. Is there a way that I can key that in before I upgrade again?
On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 19:44 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Friday, July 01, 2011 18:37:41 Mark Wallace wrote: > > I attempted to upgrade an older system from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 LTS. > > Everything went fine until I rebooted. > > > > The screen showed that grub was working properly and the boot up screen > > with the words Ubuntu 10.04 appeared normally. > > > > Then the screen went black. Not even a cursor. I booted up in base > > graphics mode and first it said that no monitor was present and then it > > said that it was but there was no usable configuration. > > That sounds like you've run into a video mode bug. If you're using an nVidia > videocard, and the Nouveau driver (used by default) doesn't work for you, you > can blacklist it by adding the following line to > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: > > blacklist nouveau > > > I am guessing that the upgrade set a higher screen resolution than my > > system can handle. I am also guessing that I could configure it in > > command mode and then it would work. > > > > The bad news is that I don't know command well enough to do it. > > > > It was handled screen resolution 1024X768 with refresh rate of 51 no > > problem with Ubuntu 9.04. > > > > Can somebody walk me through configuring my video. It's Ubuntu so root > > is disabled. I have to do it as super user. > > Besides the above, examine the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to find out > what > video driver is used for X. > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jul 6 - Arduino-palooza > Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting > Sep 7 - DIY 3D Printing and the Makerbot Thing-o-Matic -- Mark Robert Mark Wallace Tita P Wallace 200 Fitch Street Unit 26-135 Welland, Ontario L3C 4V9 (905) 963-0926 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 6 - Arduino-palooza Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting Sep 7 - DIY 3D Printing and the Makerbot Thing-o-Matic
