Just finished installing Ubuntu...

[Churnd]

Yep, I made the change from SuSE to Ubuntu and the install went off without a problem. I did this once before and had the same problem. I'm seeing bars running vertically down the screen. I'm thinking it's gotta be a video card problem. However, I'm running a basic setup with onboard graphics. I really wanna get this working so suggestions are appreciated.

 

[InlineFive]

System specs always help. Especially with Linux.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Backup your X config file, and rerun the setup.

 

[OffTopic1]

Fire your system up using Knoppix or the alike live CD, then backup your old Xconfig file & copy the Knoppix Xconfig file into its place.

 

[Nothinman]

Onboard video cards are usually the worst, if you have an AGP or PCI card you'll probably have better luck. And since you didn't say what kind of card it is, noone will be able to tell you if the driver sucks or not.

 

[Churnd]

It's an Intel 82815 chipset.

I'll search around about how to backup the xconfig file.

 

[drag]

I believe that Ubuntu uses XF86Config-4 instead of the newer xorg.conf file, but if you have xorg.conf copy those. Also some produce XF86Config and if you have BOTH XF86Config and XF86Config-4, the -4 one gets used... if not then the when without the suffix gets used. (this was done for backward compatablity from years ago)

to backup:
sudo su -
(to become root)
cd ~/
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ./XF96Config.backup

That's it.

With your 815-based video card.. It's very slow. I have a similar, newer Intel card in a old laptop (which I sold a while ago).. I think it's a speed problem.

I looked in google and found this thing related, and it's in the Ubuntu forums (google'd version of the forums is low-fi, to get to the nicer version you go to www.ubuntuforums.org)

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-4124.html

The guy had bars, and snow and some weird effects with his mouse cursor. To fix it he had to change the color depth to 16 bit, from the default 24bit (same as 32bit in windows).

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel Corporation 82815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
Monitor "FLATRON 775F"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1

See the 'DefaultDepth'? Make sure that is 16 there and not 24.

Backup your file before editing it, of course. Always do that. So that if you make a mistake (we all do) you won't loose your original settings.

If you can only use command line and are unfamilar with unix style text editors, give 'nano' a try. Uses ctrl-button combos for all the commands... like ^x and such.. (were ^ is the shorthand for ctrl)

Hope that helps.

 

[user1234]

post above is correct, but I like to point out the following:
1) you don't need to become root to be able to copy the xconfig file (and btw, to become root the command is "sudo -s").
2) If you're using the Ubuntu Hoary preview version (and not the current Warty 4.10), then the x-config file is /etx/X11/xorg.conf instead of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
3) For Ubuntu related problems, you can go to ubuntuforums.org - it's a very good resource with lots of forum members to help.
4) To restart X after editing the x-config file, press ctrl-alt-backspace

 

[Churnd]

The problem was with Gnome for some reason or the other. I'm running Kubuntu with KDE right now and it's working like a charm