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Cannot install ubuntu 6.10, installation hangs

Asked by hooj

Hello,

I would consider myself knowledgeable about computers in general, but I don't know very much about linux. I've got an old PC that I wanted to install Linux onto so that I could tinker around with it and get comfortable with it. That being said, I cannot get ubuntu 6.10 to install.

The computer is:
Celeron 1ghz
384mb RAM
6gb HDD
64mb geforce400mx PCI

Not a screaming computer by any means, but I figured it could get the job done. Anyways, no matter what I do, the installation goes to a point and it then displays a black screen and stops. I've tried changing the boot options to turn apic off and I also tried the framebuffer options in the troubleshooting page. It still hangs. The only thing I can say that might help is that I turned the quiet option off and tried to find out what it was loading before it would go to the all-black screen. The last two entries were:

Starting GNOME display manager
Starting UNIX printing system:closed (I think this is correct, it flashes by very quickly)

Then it jumps to a black screen and does nothing.

Any ideas/suggestions?

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hooj (hooj) said : 		#1

I am sorry if this is redundant in any way... I swear I'm a good person and tried to do everything I could find here before restoring to asking this question

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Tiago Faria (gouki) said : 		#2

Hi,

Are you able to get into the LiveCD mode and start the installation?

From what I read on your support ticket, I have the idea you are able to start the installation. However, the part where you mention changes on the boot options got me thinking otherwise.

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hooj (hooj) said : 		#3

right, sorry, I choose the first option in the CD's menu after changing the boot options and it begins to load a bunch of things and gets stuck after those two things,

Starting GNOME display manager
Starting UNIX printing system:closed

just goes to a black screen with nothing

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hooj (hooj) said : 		#4

ok, so I went and downloaded the alternate iso, and I installed it via text option. It went through the entire installation, and spit the CD out and asked me to restart it. I did so, and it came up with the ubuntu logo, and once the progress bar filled up, the entire screen went black, like my problem previously.

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hooj (hooj) said : 		#5

I'm really pretty sure it's a problem of graphical nature, but not knowing much about linux, I can't figure it out. I'm wondering if it's issues with my video card (it's PCI) and that the computer has onboard video as well.

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Tiago Faria (gouki) said : 		#6

Hi hooj,

In order to get GUI so you can proceed with the installation, you will need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

When you get an all black screen, do the following:

Press CTRL+ALT+F1, to get you text mode:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Locate the [Device] section and add this line to the bottom of it:

Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,Auto"

You're done editing. Press CTRL+O to save changes (with nano) or ESC and :wq if you're using vi

Press CTRL+ALT+F7 to get back to the GUI mode followed by CTRL+ALT+BackSpace to restart the X server.

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Tiago Faria (gouki) said : 		#7

Hi,

I noticed you submitted a bug (#105987) about this.

Sorry to ask, but, have you tried what I mentioned?

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Tiago Faria (gouki) said : 		#8

I just re-read your posts and I noticed you have two graphics card. Have you disabled the onboard graphics card on the BIOS?

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Best hooj (hooj) said : 		#9

Yeah, I tried your solution, it did not work, hehe. The problem was that I had to choose in the bios one or the other, onboard or PCI. I could do everything with the onboard - install, configure, run. However it was very slow graphically. Yet, when I switched to my PCI card, I could install, but once it installed, it would load to where the login screen should be there, but instead, the screen would go completely black. I talked to a friend about it, and he said it was probably the fact that I needed to setup the driver for the pci card in the xserver configuration, and he told me to play around with the dpkg-reconfigure-xserver-xorg command. I used lspci to find the address of the PCI slot the graphics card was in, and played with the configuration menu until I got it to work. Now it works perfectly fine, and it uses the PCI card.

Thank you for your efforts, I definitely appreciate it.

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Anoar (mich2212001) said : 		#10

i'm having the same issue, i would appreciate it if some one can explain what hooj was talking about. I'm new to lunix but having technical background with troubleshooting with windows.

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amebb (info-aps8) said : 		#11

Hi

I am having a similar issue with my display.

I have installed Ubuntu on my pc using a Dell monitor. The installation went fine and the system was work ok.

The problem arose when i changed the Dell monitor to another Dell monitor (E151 fpp).

When i plugged it in this is the error i got on my screen: 'Cannot Display This Video Mode'.

I have tried changing the res on the PC but it makes no difference.

I am using a graphics card built in to my mother board.

Is there anyone that can help me .................?

Thanks

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amebb (info-aps8) said : 		#12

Hi

I am having a similar issue with my display.

I have installed Ubuntu on my pc using a Dell monitor. The installation went fine and the system was work ok.

The problem arose when i changed the Dell monitor to another Dell monitor (E151 fpp).

When i plugged it in this is the error i got on my screen: 'Cannot Display This Video Mode'.

I have tried changing the res on the PC but it makes no difference.

I am using a graphics card built in to my mother board.

Is there anyone that can help me .................?

Thanks

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Anoar (mich2212001) said : 		#13

i downloaded and installed ubuntu dekstop

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:15 AM, amebb
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> Question #4699 on Ubuntu changed:
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> amebb posted a new comment:
> Hi
>
> I am having a similar issue with my display.
>
> I have installed Ubuntu on my pc using a Dell monitor. The installation
> went fine and the system was work ok.
>
> The problem arose when i changed the Dell monitor to another Dell
> monitor (E151 fpp).
>
> When i plugged it in this is the error i got on my screen: 'Cannot
> Display This Video Mode'.
>
> I have tried changing the res on the PC but it makes no difference.
>
> I am using a graphics card built in to my mother board.
>
> Is there anyone that can help me .................?
>
>
> Thanks
>
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