Problem with graphic card.

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:20:53 +1000
Simon Wong <simon at dt.net.au> wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:37 +1000, Karl Bowden wrote:
> > If you log in as root, from the bash prompt try:
> 
> Which is disabled in Ubuntu by default!

Yes, but if his video is borked, he can get a root prompt by booting in
"recovery" mode - which is likely to be the only viable way to boot in
these circumstances anyway ...

> 
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> 
> So what you need to do is login as your standard user
> 
>         login: user
>         password:
>         
>         $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> 
> Then follow Karl's instructions...

Assuming that the boot actually succeeds at all - in my experience, when a
graphics card is misconfigured, Ubuntu often fails to fall back gracefully
to a login prompt, and simply hangs. The only way out then is to hit the
power button, or know about alt-sysrq magic codes ...

Peter