on a terminal try doing sudo dpkg-reconfigre xserver-xorg. GDM launches but won't load, try going to tty1 (ctrl+alt+F1) log in and do the same command. Most of the defaults work. Jerome Jerome Gotangco jgotangco at ubuntu.com | jgotangco at gmail.com Mobile: +639196555242 GPG: 0xA97B69A0