[SOLVED] Intrepid: how to force vesa driver on boot

[jonathanmotes]

I had to install Ubuntu using the alternate disc because the live disc would not work. Now it hangs right after I log in.

I suspect it is a problem with the video driver, so I need to try to make it use the Vesa driver, but the video line in the xorg.conf only says "configured video driver". Should I replace that with the word "Vesa"?

Thanks!

[Soldierboy]

Make sure the following lines are in your Xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

[jonathanmotes]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Another question: Recovery mode mounts the filesystem as read only. How can I change that so that I can write the changes to the xorg.conf file?

[Soldierboy]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Another question: Recovery mode mounts the filesystem as read only. How can I change that so that I can write the changes to the xorg.conf file?

Hmmm..never heard of this. At any rate, you can unmount the drive (umount command) then remount (mount command) with read/write flag -rw I think. Look at: man mount

[jonathanmotes]

I'm having trouble figuring out how to mount/umount. I'll try again later tonight (I've got a class soon).

I once got a warning that I needed to do a disk scan (fstab or something). Maybe that is the reason it is read only. Do you know how to do a disk scan from the terminal?

Thanks!

[Soldierboy]

fsck

[jonathanmotes]

Thanks Soldierboy! You were a great help. I succeeded in applying the vesa driver after doing the disk scan. I later discovered the root of my problem was conflicting video cards, not the driver, but I could not have determined that without applying other drivers!