Ubuntu 10.04 Graphics Messed up

[EienTatsu]

When I use the live cd or installed 10.04 there are a bunch of horizontal lines and the screen is jagged and parts of windows are shoved to different parts of the screen. I tried butting up in low graphics mode but the same problem existed.

[Catharsis]

What graphics card do you have?

lspci | grep VGA

Try adding "nomodeset" to your kernel parameters:
1) Hold down Shift as you boot to enter the grub menu.
2) Press 'e'. Replace "quiet splash" with "nomodeset".
3) Ctrl+x to boot.

[EienTatsu]

the nomodeset fixed it. May I ask if that means I have to do anything else?

[Catharsis]

To make it permanent:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
Replace

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
with

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"
Save and exit. Then run

sudo update-grub

[EienTatsu]

WIll that have an effect on other OS on the machine? The graphics card is "VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C67 [GeForce 7150M /nForce 630M] (rev a2)"

[Catharsis]

Hmm, never thought of that. It should only affect other Linux OSes. I never thought of that though. Do you have other linux OSes on your machine?

[EienTatsu]

I'm going to install Fedora and Mint

[Catharsis]

Yeah, I really don't know enough about GRUB to give you a definitive answer. You can check here through for some more Grub2 info:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

[EienTatsu]

It's fine thanks for the help.