Edmundo excellent! If it was me trouble shooting and I wanted to work directly on that box I would through a sudo chmod -x /etc/init.d/kdm at first and reboot that box, that way when it reboots you will be at a local VT. It's totally up to you if you choose to do that as you can pretty much do everything through ssh.
Please take a look at this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingXAutoconfiguration more specifically some of the links regarding ati cards on that page. The benefit of disabling kdm on boot is that you can run a X --configure command which usually will grab a correct X configuration for your card. Different triagers have different ways of going about it. -- [Jaunty] 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller fails to load X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs