[ale] Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't like my laptop but 9.10 worked just fine on it?

[Jim Kinney]

<snark> I thought upgrading Ubuntu versions was totally painless?</snark>

try booting into runlevel 3 and not 5 (no X) and then you can launch x
manually and kill it with ctl-alt-bkspc and watch the errors. Aso check
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

sounds like the video driver is bad or the wrong one is loaded. or the
graphical boot is not unloaded before the real x starts.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Van Loggins <vanloggins at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Gateway M320 that I wanted to put Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on
>
> the problem is that something seems to have changed with Xorg in this
> version. for whatever reason the screen goes blank when it tries to
> start up x windows. I did a distribution upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 and
> everything seemed to go just fine. when it asked to reboot I let it.
>
> When it came back up it went to a black screen as soon as X started.
> Whatever is causing it is so bad that I can't even get a console to pop
> up by pressing ctrl-F1,ctrl-f2,etc.
>
> I downloaded the iso for 10.04 and tried to boot my laptop from it, and
> got the same problem, as soon as x starts it goes to a black screen.
>
> does anyone know a workaround for this issue?
>
> I'm going to download the alternate installer and try it next, but I'm
> not very hopeful at this point.
>
>
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