[Klug-general] Ubuntu Boot

[rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk]

>----Original Message----
>From: cokehabit at gmail.com
>Date: 27/12/2007 8:40 
>To: "Kent Linux User Group - General Topics"<kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subj: Re: [Klug-general] Ubuntu Boot

Hi,
 The card appears to be ATI technologies Inc Rage AGP 2X and driver is 
ati
 At boot time the process starts as normal to the point of " loading 
now.."  at which point instead of the ubuntu splash screen all is 
darkness. Nine times out of ten there is a quite long wait after which 
the light on the floppy drive flashes and the ubuntu login appears. 
However occasionally  it boots to root command line without asking for 
a  password. Pressing restart usually sends it down the first route 
again to end up at the ubuntu login. I am wondering if the system has 
been infiltrated.             
>
>Richard wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> Just because i haven't been in contact I have been listening. Found
>> "linux for Dummies" Quite useful. Thanks for that.
>>  I have been attempting some C++ programming which is going 
well.   
>> I do have a snag with gutsy gibbon though as it boots in total 
darkness
>> now and occasionally drops out to root. I have another machine that
>> boots Ok . Which files should I compare to correct the problem 
Please?.
>>     richard
>> Any Meetings Planned for Canterbury or Dover? I would like to meet 
some
>> of you but I fear my knowledge is very limited and I would have 
little
>> to contribute.
>> 
>A couple of questions.
>
>1. Does your screen click on and off?
>2. do you end up in the command line log-in or root? (ie, do you have 
to 
>sign in to get to root)
>3. Give the output of these two:
>
>cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Identifier
>cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
>
>We dont need all the info, just the ones about your graphics card 
and 
>graphics driver. For example, this laptop gives these:
>
>george at george-laptop:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Identifier
>         Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
>         Identifier      "stylus"
>         Identifier      "eraser"
>         Identifier      "cursor"
>         Identifier      "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility 
>FireGL 9000]"
>         Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
>         Identifier      "Default Screen"
>         Identifier      "Default Layout"
>
>george at george-laptop:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
>         Driver          "kbd"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Driver          "synaptics"
>         Driver          "wacom"
>         Driver          "wacom"
>         Driver          "wacom"
>         Driver          "radeon"
>
>As you can see, the ones we would need are:
>
>Identifier      "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility
>and
>Driver          "radeon"
>
>If you are unsure just post all of it.
>
>Also does fglrxinfo or glxinfo give you any output?
>
>What about trying the mesa driver? (under Driver in Section "Device" 
put 
>"mesa" and do "killall gdm" and then "gdm" (without speech marks))
>
>George
>
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