5circles
July 2nd, 2009, 07:09 PM
I'm trying to install 9.04 on a machine (Dell XPS500, 512Meg) that was previously running 7.10.
It completed the install OK, but when starting up showed the splash screen, attempted to set up the display, and then the screen went blank.
The symptoms seem similar to others I've seen on the forum, but I can't login to try the changes suggested. CTRL-ALT-F1 doesn't work after the screen has gone blank. Although it does seem that I can login from the GUI - I just can't see anything. I can ping the machine, but can't access via SSH.
When I try recovery and netroot, I can get to a prompt. It doesn't look like SSH is enabled, so it is a bit difficult to move things around.
I tried running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. This generated a new xorg.conf file that worked (sort of) when I ran startx, but the same blank screen occurred when I rebooted. Sort of means that the display is working, but the system seems stuck with errors about User Switcher quitting unexpectedly.
lshw -C video shows that the adapter is a 3DFX voodoo 3 (I can't seem to mount a flash drive to copy the file.
I'm unsure what to try next.
Thanks
Mike
It completed the install OK, but when starting up showed the splash screen, attempted to set up the display, and then the screen went blank.
The symptoms seem similar to others I've seen on the forum, but I can't login to try the changes suggested. CTRL-ALT-F1 doesn't work after the screen has gone blank. Although it does seem that I can login from the GUI - I just can't see anything. I can ping the machine, but can't access via SSH.
When I try recovery and netroot, I can get to a prompt. It doesn't look like SSH is enabled, so it is a bit difficult to move things around.
I tried running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. This generated a new xorg.conf file that worked (sort of) when I ran startx, but the same blank screen occurred when I rebooted. Sort of means that the display is working, but the system seems stuck with errors about User Switcher quitting unexpectedly.
lshw -C video shows that the adapter is a 3DFX voodoo 3 (I can't seem to mount a flash drive to copy the file.
I'm unsure what to try next.
Thanks
Mike