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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 03:34:43PM -0400, j. daniel moylan wrote: > jerry feldman wrote: > > On 07/28/2010 06:06 PM, edwardp-mh2Nk+tgbQM at public.gmane.org wrote: > >> Dan Ritter wrote: > >> > >>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:58:47AM -0400, j. daniel moylan wrote: > >>> > >>>> 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. > >>>> > >>> 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. > >>> > >> Had an eventual video problem with Ubuntu 9.04 -> 10.04 upgrade, it was > >> 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 > > not knowing how to reconfigure X, i did an R&R -- it did NOT > fix the problem. the login gui looks fine but when i log > in, i get the blank screen with a bit of twitching at the > top. > > i need some help in reconfiguring X, if indeed that's the > next thing to try, or another suggestion if it isn't. sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg If I am correct that the CF50 has a Radeon 7500, start with the radeon driver, and if that doesn't work, try the ati driver. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
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