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Thread: Installing 7.10 - won't load gui

  1. #1
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    Installing 7.10 - won't load gui

    Hey all, just being introduced to Ubuntu now. My teacher gave me a Live-CD for 7.10. Unfortunately, I've had nothing but problems getting it installed. The problem I'm having now is this:

    When I load Ubuntu it goes through the splash screen(removing quiet splash shows nothing alarming) - then gives me a gui window saying it will be running in Low Graphics Mode because it can't detect my monitor/video card. I've tried running in Low Graphics Mode - which gives me absolutely no gui. It just stops at the end of the splash and gives me a blank command prompt. No commands seem to work in it though. Or if they do, it's not doing anything.

    If I go to configure it, neither of the specific drivers are listed but I can Test the monitor working as PNP 800x600 check Widescreen. Any other setup gives me a mangled screen(running an Acer AL2016W Widescreen - not listed under Acer but the AL2032W is - also works)

    If I try to test the Video Card driver, it goes to the aforementioned command prompt, which has the last 4 lines of splash at the top. I've tried letting it sit(maybe an input delay before initial launch) but it doesn't go any further.

    System:
    CPU: AMD Athlon Dual Core x64
    RAM: 4gb
    HDD: 2x Western Digital
    ODD: 2x Optical(both fully functional, 1 DVD-ROM 1 DVD-RW)
    Video Card: GeForce 8800 512mb(single, not SLi)

    Installed Already:
    Windows XP
    Windows Vista Business
    Fedora 8

    As far as I can tell the problem lies in the video card though. Anyone know how I can work around this?

    I've also tried running the Wubi install off the disc, didn't work either. Same problem came up. As of now it shows up as a Bootable OS but it won't go past the Splash.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Apr 2008
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    Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper

    Re: Installing 7.10 - won't load gui

    is it the 64bit version???
    Gosh Darn Police Line You Better Not Cross!
    Is it the cop, or am I the one that's really dangerous?

    upgrade to vista!!

  3. #3
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    Re: Installing 7.10 - won't load gui

    Not that I can tell, it's just a disk in a sleeve.

    But that hasn't mattered for anything else - say Vista 32 bit.

  4. #4
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    Oct 2007
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    Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

    Re: Installing 7.10 - won't load gui

    I think that the problem would be your video card, mine won't work for desktop effects but my video card is worse than yours. So it was proably what paul101 said.

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