I installed Ubuntu 5.10 on my computer today. The installation went fine, except that the only thing I now have access to is a command line, and I get the following error message:
Failure to start the X server (Your graphics interface.)
I've googled around, and the only decent result said to go into $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and configure my graphic settings manually. This has been to no avail.
Has anyone here encountered this problem, or possibly just happen to know what to do?
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
What graphics chip do you have? Also post the logs in /var/log/Xorg.*
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
My graphics card: 128MB ATI® Radeon™ X300 SE HyperMemory™ Graphics.
As for the second part, this is embarassing, but how do I get to those? (Also, I'm actually typing this post from a seperate computer.)
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
Do you have a flash or floppy drive you can use to save things? In the case of flash (and assuming you don't have SATA drives), "sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt; sudo cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /mnt;sudo umount /mnt". It's /dev/fd0 if you're using floppy, and sdb, sdc, etc if you have SATA drives.
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
I had a similar problem with Debian, which is Ubuntu's daddy. It turns out I picked the wrong video driver, so I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg or some similar command, picked the correct one, and X fired right up.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -Herbert Spencer
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, III vi.
