brickhead248
August 24th, 2010, 01:28 PM
Hey Ubuntu Forums, I'm starting a few threads for problems with my laptop's Ubuntu install.
I have an Acer Aspire TimelineX 5820TG-524G50MN dual-booting W7-64 and Ubuntu 10-4 64
A very strange thing happens when i try to open up a TTY (don't know the correct terminology, but you know what i mean... ctrl-alt-f2 etc.): everything freezes, i get this strange artefacting all over the screen (each occurrence of a certain colour is replaced by boxes of colours like pink/green/blue/red... pretty hard to describe and i can't take a screen shot). It's not just a frozen display, because when i blindly log on to the terminal and try a command like sudo reboot (without forgetting to type in my password!), nothing happens. Everything is returned to normal when i crtl-alt-f7 though.
This same kind of artefacting happens right when Ubuntu boots, (green rings around the loading dots), but this only lasts for a few seconds until it loads something which fixes the artefacting and everything is fine (until i try ctrl alt f2).
I'm running the normal drivers for the graphics cards because when i enabled the proprietary drivers (AMD/ATI proprietary FGLRX graphics driver) it actually nerfed my install and it wouldn't boot. I had to re-install.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! I don' really have the experience in this kind of thing to know where to start.
cheers!
I have an Acer Aspire TimelineX 5820TG-524G50MN dual-booting W7-64 and Ubuntu 10-4 64
A very strange thing happens when i try to open up a TTY (don't know the correct terminology, but you know what i mean... ctrl-alt-f2 etc.): everything freezes, i get this strange artefacting all over the screen (each occurrence of a certain colour is replaced by boxes of colours like pink/green/blue/red... pretty hard to describe and i can't take a screen shot). It's not just a frozen display, because when i blindly log on to the terminal and try a command like sudo reboot (without forgetting to type in my password!), nothing happens. Everything is returned to normal when i crtl-alt-f7 though.
This same kind of artefacting happens right when Ubuntu boots, (green rings around the loading dots), but this only lasts for a few seconds until it loads something which fixes the artefacting and everything is fine (until i try ctrl alt f2).
I'm running the normal drivers for the graphics cards because when i enabled the proprietary drivers (AMD/ATI proprietary FGLRX graphics driver) it actually nerfed my install and it wouldn't boot. I had to re-install.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! I don' really have the experience in this kind of thing to know where to start.
cheers!