zcacogp
July 21st, 2009, 06:32 PM
Chaps,
Long story cut short ...
- I installed kernel 2.6.30 on my desktop machine, as described in this thread here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582
- This broke the machine - the login screen was messed up, and unusable.
- I wiped the install and re-installed from the CD.
- I re-installed the 2.6.30 kernel, and it worked fine. I was about 95% of the way through installing everything I wanted on the machine, when ...
- I installed the same screen driver as I had originally, re-booted, and the login screen was messed up again.
So now I have a machine which will boot to a command line, but won't boot fully into Ubuntu. Seemingly because there is a conflict between my screen driver and the 2.6.30 kernel.
The graphics card I have is on-board the motherboard, and it's an ATI Radeon HD 330 card, and I *think* the screen driver that was installed was a fglrx one. (It was selected automatically and listed as 'no enabled'. I clicked on 'enable this' and re-started, and the problems as described above re-started ... )
So, my question. How do I change back to the original screen driver from the command line? OR how do I change back to the original kernel from the command line? Either will do ...
Thanks, in advance, for any help anyone can offer. For what it's worth, when I ruined the first installation I posted this thread here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1214868&page=3
Oh, the install is 9.04 Jaunty. And I'm a bit of a beginner (rarely venture out of "Absolute beginner talk", so please talk slowly ... thanks!)
Oli.
Long story cut short ...
- I installed kernel 2.6.30 on my desktop machine, as described in this thread here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582
- This broke the machine - the login screen was messed up, and unusable.
- I wiped the install and re-installed from the CD.
- I re-installed the 2.6.30 kernel, and it worked fine. I was about 95% of the way through installing everything I wanted on the machine, when ...
- I installed the same screen driver as I had originally, re-booted, and the login screen was messed up again.
So now I have a machine which will boot to a command line, but won't boot fully into Ubuntu. Seemingly because there is a conflict between my screen driver and the 2.6.30 kernel.
The graphics card I have is on-board the motherboard, and it's an ATI Radeon HD 330 card, and I *think* the screen driver that was installed was a fglrx one. (It was selected automatically and listed as 'no enabled'. I clicked on 'enable this' and re-started, and the problems as described above re-started ... )
So, my question. How do I change back to the original screen driver from the command line? OR how do I change back to the original kernel from the command line? Either will do ...
Thanks, in advance, for any help anyone can offer. For what it's worth, when I ruined the first installation I posted this thread here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1214868&page=3
Oh, the install is 9.04 Jaunty. And I'm a bit of a beginner (rarely venture out of "Absolute beginner talk", so please talk slowly ... thanks!)
Oli.