7.04 no screen

As you might guess, I installed the system from the Alternate CD, since the LiveCD would only freeze during setup. I did ok access on install to all restricted, universes, multiverses I was aware of.

i ever face this problem twice, first is because of resolution setting is wrong, the second is when i updated my dapper 6.06 to feisty 7.0 through apt-get, the problem is the installation of xserver havent complete, cause of some weird upgrade that i dont understand, but i try this command "apt-get -f upgrade", and do it again and again till all upgrade of xserver complete and can access the X server. but my grapchic card is nvidia.

try look at Xorg log

Apples and oranges. No help there.

Does anyone have any experience with the equipment I listed? No doubt this is an xserver problem because as I said the equipment works nicely in Windows.

When I did install fglrx, running fglrxinfo failed. The only output said no screens found. Running lspci it does identify the whole motherboard/pci bus relationship and does not seem to indicate any error. It recognizes ATI in that log.

What I am wondering is there a way to disable my ATI card altogether and just use the motherboard chipset instead? After all, the install screens all work in a variety of screen resolutions, such as 1024x768x32. I'd be happy just to get onto the gnome desktop even without my card acceleration. At least I could work from there.

Could you copy paste your xorg.conf here please? Just to check if there is anything wrong.

Thnks!

Most of problem solved. I reinstalled with Alternate CD with text installation. I selected 1024X768X32 for install screen process (F4) and overlayed "splash" over "quiet" and chose "Expert Mode" for (F6). The installation went smoothly, I partitioned manually the way I wanted, and including XP for dual boot in Grub.

First boot up failed as expected. No screen. So, I rebooted into rescue mode into root command line. With my laptop handy, I followed instructions in Ubuntu user documentation to configure ATI drivers. I had used it before, but I must have missed something. I followed the steps exactly (except for using nano where it said "gedit"), and the system then rebooted successfully. The restricted fglrx driver works fine. I readjusted my screen to use 1680X1050 which suits best.

XP boots fine, and in Feisty, the Win partitions are all mounted just fine.

However... I have no sound. But, that is another problem! I have a soundcard on PCI that ports digital optical out to my stereo system. It works great in XP. But, in Feisty is dead silence. No login system sound, sound utility is dead silent on all tests... nothing.

How to troubleshoot that?

MMMm i have digital out from my motherboard through the SPDIF plug. It's working for system sounds I think. So I guess it's just a matter of activating the digital plug. Double click the volume manager, then EDIT > PREFERENCES

Look for an option called "digital" something ,or for IEC958
It will then add those options in the main window. Look in the tabs, then activate the option, and try to play some sound or music.

I'm not sound expert unfortunately.