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I will try getting a new x11 conf... and yes, the monitor shows a green signal all the time, so it doesn't look like it's the video card otherwise the monitor would probably complain about no signal...

No, I cannot get to a terminal w/ ctrl+alt+f2 when it is running and blank screen.

nvidia-settings says "ERR :The control display is undefined"

And yes, I do get a display when it powers on, I get the bios startup graphic and then the text as it boots, but when it would go to a graphical-mode (when i should get login screen) it goes black --...

Thanks, Yep "nvidia 11313877"

Thanks. I tried nomodeset but that did not help.

I'm pretty sure I am using the restricted nvidia driver in 13.04 but not sure how to find out what version it is using terminal.

Card is NVIDIA...

I'm not sure if I have a hardware problem with my NVIDA video card or if its a software-related issue.

I boot my Ubuntu, I see the graphical motherboard display, and then I see all the plain text...

I also tried booting from 12.04 disc - I get to the Menu of options, but then when I click anything 'try w/o installing', 'install' etc, it goes black with random "" characters on the screen.

I'm using NVIDIA Corporation GF104 [GeForce GTX 460]

This is what lspci says:

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF104 [GeForce GTX 460] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA...

Thanks for the code, but what exactly am I supposed to do with it?

Am I supposed to run both lines of code you have in order, or make a change to a grub config file?

thanks

Looks like it has something to do with GDM or lightdm. I re-installed Xorg which prompted me which I would rather use, gdm or lightdm. Choosing gdm at least brought me to a text-based login. Then I...

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I upgraded to 12.10 a few days ago. All was well, but looks like an interrupted updated caused problems.

When I boot the comp, I get random "" characters all over the screen. Then I get a...

Hi everyone,

My boss bought me a EEE PC and of course I want to install Ubuntu onto it. (Actually I've always wanted to try Xubuntu so that's what I'll use). Since it doesn't have a CDROM drive...

Wow!