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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?

What graphics chip do you have? Also post the logs in /var/log/Xorg.*

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.)

sudo less /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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.

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.