It starts up in text mode! ... But that's not my problem. I just wanted to see how many I caught off-guard. :)
Seriously, this is what happens when I boot: http://www.nonken.net/images/console_problem.JPG See those shadowy bits? That's not reflection, that's what it looks like, except the bits are kind of crawling in circles. And oh by the way, it's sitting at the login prompt. It's a C&T 69000 on-board video processor with 2 meg of memory. Hardly an exotic card. And it works fine otherwise, it just seems like Ubuntu is kicking it into a mode it doesn't support. Here's my dmesg: http://www.nonken.net/images/console_problem.txt Google doesn't tell me much; most people seem concerned with X issues. Any hints? Clues? Advice, other than "throw it away and get a real system?" Jeez, I just want to run Subversion, TikiWiki, and a bug tracker, I don't need a powerhouse. Why is nothing ever that simple? _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech