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the screen turn into black after installing ubuntu 8.10

Asked by yejustme

i got a benq laptop one year ago.
its main board is vn896( produced by via ),Graphiced by chrome 9 hc igp family.
 i am a freshman in the area of ubuntu or linux
after burning a cd ,i tried to install ubuntu 8.10,
but after displaying the logo of ubuntu and the task bar,the screen turned into black.
then i reboot the computer,and enter the key "F4" ,select the "safety graphic mode",then i installed sucessfully.
but after installing that,when the computer boot,after displaying the logo of ubuntu and the task bar,the screen turned into black!!!!the system could not turn into a GUI state.

i selected the "recovery mode " after rebooting and tried to install the via driver (which was written for 8.04 lts),some files could not be copied to the correct location.
it was so boring to input commands (like microsoft`s DOS).yeah ,sth must be wrong with the graphic driver.
what can i do?
i learn some knowledge about ubuntu ,but i am a freshman .it seems impossible to make it work.
i have no choice but to use windows xp as before.
can you reply in chinese? not good at english （不太擅长英语）。the reason why i try to write in english is that i want to get answers faster……

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Best jfgordon (jfgordon2) said : 		#1

Have you checked to make sure the system is booting into the correct resolution for your screen size? Since you say that it boots correctly into safe graphics mode, but blacks out on a normal startup, it seems like the same problem I ran into, and I hope this helps you.

As for the fix I tried (I don't want to encourage this, but it may be a smart thing to try), from your live CD or windows partition, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf on your ubuntu partition, which should contain the screen size that has been loading, and change it to a known working screen size such as 800x600 or whatever is good for you.

If that doesn't work for you, you can always choose the grub menu option Ubuntu 8.10 recovery (or whatever it says along those lines), and try to fix the Xorg configuration.

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yejustme (yejustme) said : 		#2

thank you for you answer.I tried but failed.Then I installed ubuntu 8.04 and it run normally on my laptop with VIA's driver.