Ubuntu 11.10 refuses to display correctly after software update

Wed May 16 05:13:10 UTC 2012

On 05/15/2012 08:42 PM, John Schroer wrote:
> I have a Pentium 4 system with 1 gb RAM,, EVGA GEFroce FX-5200 video,
> 400 gb SATA Drive, Samsung 21.6" Syncmaster flat screen.
> It has been running 11.10 Ubuntui with no problem, until I did a
> software update.  Now all I get is a white screen with strange ascii
> characters on it.   I have tried goiong to previous versions of Ubuntu
> on the GRUB, but to no avail.
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
> John
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The system may have loaded the open-source nvidia driver with 3d
acceleration, which I found extremely buggy. Check your xorg.conf file
in /etc/X11 to see what driver is being loaded. The problem driver is
nouveau.

Art Edwards
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