ubuntu upgrade

[Jerry Feldman]

On 07/28/2010 06:06 PM, edwardp-mh2Nk+tgbQM at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:58:47AM -0400, j. daniel moylan wrote:
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>>> some months ago i did an on-line upgrade on my asus netbook
>>> from ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04.  it went smoothly with zero
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> yesterday i did the same upgrade on my panasonic cf-50.
>>> the login screen looked fine, but when i went to log in,
>>> gnome wouldn't come up -- just a blank screen with a bit
>>> of flicker.  logging in remotely works fine.
>>>
>>> what are my options?  how would i best reinstall just gnome?
>>> any suggestions welcome.
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>> I would guess that you have a new X driver that doesn't work
>> well with your video hardware. Try ALT-F1 to get to a console
>> screen and then reconfigure X.
>>
>> -dsr-
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> Had an eventual video problem with Ubuntu 9.04 -> 10.04 upgrade, it was=
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> ATi related.  Couldn't fix the problem after changing resolution, so I =

> did an R&R (reformat and reinstall) on it.
Did that fix the problem

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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