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Unbutu linux prob...

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quackerww

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Every time I try to use the live CD and or install I get an error saying that this graphics device was unable to set up correctly. Please press enter to enter command line.

Any thoughts?

2 different computers neither worked.
 
I assume you have a newer ATi or nVidia card? I think it tries to load the open-source driver nv or ati because it doesn't have the fglrx or nvidia driver and the older open-source drivers don't support the newer cards. For some reason, its not using the correct driver.

When you enter the command line, it'll ask you to login. Just type your username and password that you set up when you installed Ubuntu. Once you get inside type "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and it'll ask you for your password. Enter it and it'll take you through an ncurses based setup that you might've seen before. Just hit enter until you get to the driver selection and instead of entering nv or ati, choose the vesa driver. Also, it'll ask you about color depth. Choose 16bit (just hit enter for everything else, it'll choose the default values). That should be enough to get you through the login. Once you're in Ubuntu, you can work on setting up ATi's or nVidia's latest drivers.
 
Ubuntu never installed succesfully over here, part of the reason why I never gave it any attention really.
However , I was Beta testing Fedora Core 5 on a spare PII machine, after seeing what I wanted to see I decided to give Ubuntu another attempt, but this time instead of Hoary Hedgehog I tried the 5.10 Breezy and Easy 😛

Surprise Ubuntu now works for the first time !!! I think they have finally fixed the bug that was stopping me from running it on all of my machines. I was having kind of the same problem as you were, instead of being directed to a GUI,but I got no errors and just found myself at the commandline ! GDM couldn't launch succesfully.
Ubuntu was not bad really for me as a Fedora user, I LOVED how fast and stable Synaptic is as compared to YUM, but that was about it, really 🙁 couldn't find anything else in Ubuntu to keep it on that machine, however I am keeping it there untill Fedora Core 5 goes official.

However I need to ask, what version of Ubuntu do you have ? In case you are running an older version, try and get the 5.10 certain bugs might be fixed by now,
 
How do you go about starting linux from the command line?
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Linux is already started at that point. And how did you figure out how to change the driver but not start X?

You can probbaly just use 'startx' to get the GUI up after fixing the driver, but I don't remember how the Ubuntu LiveCD is setup so I'm not sure that's the way they want you to do it.
 
Also when you run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", choose 16bit instead of 24bit resolution. I ran into a similar problem installing Ubuntu onto Virtual PC. I had to go back to command line and modify this before X would load properly.

If you will post your hardware configuration, I am sure it would be easier to troubleshoot.
 
Sorry, I've always had to reconfigure the x-server with every Ubuntu installation. It really got annoying, after that Ubuntu is ok. Personally, I would recommend Suse. It never gave me any problems.
 
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