ubuntu upgrade

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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.
>
> -dsr-
>    

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.