Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:18 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: - edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , and in the Device section for the video card, change the Driver line from Driver ati to Driver fglrx And then reboot. Are you a windows support person... ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the X

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 19:46 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:18 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: - edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , and in the Device section for the video card, change the Driver line from Driver ati to Driver fglrx And then reboot. Are you a

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 19:55 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 19:46 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:18 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: - edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , and in the Device section for the video card, change the Driver line from Driver ati to

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Bruce Badger
On 25/03/06, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 17:46 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: The system hung with the blank screen there and nothing else happening. The system responds to pings, but does not visibly respond to any keyboard input (e.g. trying to select other

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 20:10 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: On 25/03/06, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 17:46 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: The system hung with the blank screen there and nothing else happening. The system responds to pings, but does not visibly

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Still
Peter Hardy wrote: Almost never a need to reboot a Linux machine. *shrug* Sometimes I prefer to reboot than go through 37 steps to preserve my precious uptime. I have many Linux machines. A lot of them need rebooting quite frequently. You're point is right -- which is worth more to me, my

[SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-24 Thread Bruce Badger
In trying to solve a problem with recording sound using the built in mic on my Thinkpad T21, I thought I'd give the latest flight of Ubuntu a try. I burned the Flight 5 Ubuntu CD and went through the install to the point where the CD was ejected and the system rebooted. Everything seemed OK up

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-24 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 17:46 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: When the system rebooted, I saw the graphical boot stuff with the messages scrolling on the brown screen under the Ubuntu logo. Then the screen went blank except for a non-blinking cursor in the top left of the screen, then I heard the

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-24 Thread David
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:46:00PM +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: In trying to solve a problem with recording sound using the built in mic on my Thinkpad T21, I thought I'd give the latest flight of Ubuntu a try. I burned the Flight 5 Ubuntu CD and went through the install to the point where