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Display messes up after boot.

Asked by xander223

I've finally successfully installed Ubuntu. I first tried it with the Live CD, but it would show the Ubuntu load bar and when it was done the screen went black. The light on the monitor stayed green so it was active, but not displaying anything. I have a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 as well as the onboard display adapter that is an Intel(R) 82810E Graphics Controller. When boots and I unplug the monitor from the NVIDIA driver and plug it into the onboard graphics controller is when I actually do get some display. It's garbled and appears to freeze the computer cause it goes no further. I can slightly make out the Ubuntu symbol and name, but other than that it's a bunch of white lines across the screen. I currently run Windows XP, but have partitioned 75 GB of fresh hard drive space to Ubuntu. I have an 1 Gig Intel Celeron processor and 512 MB Ram. I tried to do that command line thing.. the $ sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup, but the only command line I could get to didn't recognize the function or something like that. Is there a way to get to the right command line that would use said function? Other than the RedHat I used like 4 years ago with teacher assitance on a school computer I've never used Linux. This is my very first attempt at installing a Linux system in any form.

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jtrott (jtrott-88) said : 		#1

Sounds like you need to go into your BIOS and make sure the on board graphics are disabled. If it is disabled from the BIOS Ubuntu should look to the NVIDIA add-in card, which should work a lot better by default.

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xander223 (forlong-99) said : 		#2

Well, it kinda worked. I went into my BIOS and located the PCI and found that the NVIDIA was enabled and the on board graphics was disabled. When I switched back to my on board as the primary and it started just fine. I think Iĺl try to do the $ sudo think again and report back.

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xander223 (forlong-99) said : 		#3

Well, after I went back and found out the location of my graphics card I did the $ sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf thing and modified it. Now all is well. Ubuntu recognizes and uses it instead of the onboard. Thanks for the help.