Ubuntu 7.10 and black screen

[misterbadnback]

I just tried booting from the Ubuntu 7.10 live CD and it went through the screen with Ubuntu on it and the bar under it loading and while it was doing that I got some sounds like maybe startup sounds from Ubuntu but the sounds were choppy, but then after it finished with the bar moving like it was done booting from the CD it just went to a black screen and never made it any further.
I then tried the older version I had 7.04 and it worked and went straight to the desktop. Is there a problem with the newer version and maybe my graphics card? I thought I would try and see what the newer version was like before I installed it permanantly and I am glad I did.

[modmidget]

Found this message on the Ubuntu 7.10 release notes page:

Known bug

Blank screen with some ATI hardware
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People with ATI display adapters may get a blank screen when loading X due to the driver being unable to initialize certain hardware. Upstream is working on it, and hopefully we'll be able to release an update for 7.10 soon after the release. In the meantime, add 'Option "LVDSBiosNativeMode" "false"' to the driver section of xorg.conf. Bug #132716

[leroys1000]

My system shows blank screen and no signal to monitor after booting.
As soon as I move the mouse,the display comes on.

[misterbadnback]

The only problem is I have a NVIDIA card.

[MishY]

Hi,

You didn't say whether you are using the i386 or 64 bit version. You may want to try the 64bit fix: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3600099&postcount=2

If that works, there is a fix on the ubuntu forums by editting the menu file to make this change permanent (although you do lose the splash screen)

[misterbadnback]

I am using the i386 but I will try the 64bit and see if that works.

[modmidget]

I have the S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR display which is welded to the motherboard (I think 'integrated' is the correct description), and it works just fine.

By the way, I did the Ubuntu internet "upgrade" from 7.04 to 7.10 and nearly all of my hardware continued to work just fine. I also downloaded the ISO file, burned it to CD, and booted my PC with it and everything seemed be working ok that way too.

[modmidget]

I found this at the Ubuntu forums, maybe it will help:


I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my Dell Inspiron 2650 and enabled Nvidia GeForce2 Go (lspci shows nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 Go] (rev b2)) proprietary drivers and after rebooting the screen either was blank, frozen, or sometimes would show some garbled output.

Here's what I did to fix it:

On bootup, hit F2 to enter the Dell BIOS
For the section marked "Video Display Device", switched the setting from "Simul Mode" to "LCD Mode"

Saved the setting with F10 and then exited and rebooted.


On reboot everything came up normal.

Here's a link to the thread I found, maybe you can find additional help there:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221313&highlight=nvidia&page=29

[misterbadnback]

I am using the 64bit Live CD right now. It works! Now I can go ahead and install it permanently to my HD Thursday. Thanks everyone.

[misterbadnback]

Maybe someone can help me here. Why is it when I just ran Ubuntu from the live CD it recognized my 3-80GB HD's and my 250GB HD but windows does not recognize the 250GB HD in my computer. It recognizes it everywhere else device manager, disk management ,etc... McAfee is the only other thing that doesn't recognize it.
READ FULL THREAD in the HARDWARE FORUM.

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167803

[Peddy]

I think that this is a known problem, I have experienced it before (some older hard-drives are not supported). Are the hard-drives different models?