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lilbluegremlin
June 23rd, 2008, 12:10 AM
i recently updated to hardy heron and everything seemed to installed fine.
however when i rebooted Ubuntu loaded and then froze to a black screen right before the login.
i was able to boot up using an old kernel 2.6.22-14 rather then 2.6.24-19 that is hardy.
want i have seen from looking around the forums is that 24-16 seems to work fine for plenty of people and i'm wondering how can i load an older kernel like 24-16?
or is there some other passable fix that i might use?
the old kernel is preventing me from loading the correct video drivers for my ati radeon x1950

lilbluegremlin
June 23rd, 2008, 01:00 AM
Just for a reference i followed this information and it fixed my not being able to boot into 24-19


From safe mode, run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh
then restart X with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE or just reboot normally.
That will reset your xorg.conf file.