Screen 'flashes' after upgrade to Narwhal

[jmidgley]

Hiwha

I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 which I first upgraded 'over-the-air' to Narwhal. This completed with no errors. After reboot, the screen momentarily displays some icons before reverting to the background - this loops round every few seconds.

I've subsequently tried installing with the CD which runs through with no errors, but does the same thing when it's finished - blink... blink... blink...

Any ideas what's wrong?

Cheers
John

[mörgæs]

Which screen card do you have?

[jmidgley]

Ah. Don't know - it's a laptop, so whatever the integrated graphics chipset is.

Breaking news - selecting 'Ubuntu Classic' or 'Ubuntu Classic (No effects)' works fine - it's only 'Ubuntu' that causes the problem.

There's also this strange matter of the white screen with black text garbage on start-up and shut-down.

John