No display after upgrade to 9.04

[anthony baldwin]

Bob Cortez wrote:
> I'm at wits end, I've tried everything I can think of and from what
> I've research. This is an online upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04.  I
> followed the directions at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading .
>  This is my hardware - Gateway Laptop MT6728 Intel Pentium Dual CPU
> t2330 @1.6GHz 2 GB Ram 32bit.
>
> The upgrade appeared to go just fine.  No warnings other than turning
> off third party repositories. Booting up goes fine right up to where
> the log in screen should be, and all I get is some screen flickers
> changing from dark to light then back again.
>
>   

Sounds like possibly a problem with your Xorg settings, perhaps.
Are you able to post your Xorg.conf?
(boot with livecd and dig it out of /etc if you must)

What if you boot to terminal/recovery mode and do startx?
Could you try that and post any error messages?
/tony

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