On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 15:14 +0100, Melv Bailey wrote: > Clearly the regulars on here (I have been following this list for a > while) will defend Ubuntu to the hilt, but if you want its use to expand > someone need to accept there is a problem.
First I wish I could help - but haven't seen anything remotely like this problem except when I booted a PC from a drive onto which I had cloned the drive in my netbook. The video was out of range for the monitor that was connected at the time so I altered the monitor stuff and re-booted as failsafe. Can't remember how I did it - maybe by temporarily swapping monitors. Could you plug an external monitor into your laptop while you alter the resolution/sync rate etc? I won't defend Ubuntu to the hilt, but I will say that in the last six months, since I bought my Dell laptop, preinstalled with Ubuntu (sadly now no longer available), I have put Ubuntu onto seven PC's and one laptop with absolutely no problem. These are now in regular use by my wife, my daughter, myself, a non-computer literate friend who thinks Ubuntu is better than Windows and so on ..... One of these machines has an Nvidia-based mobo, but the proprietary driver installed and worked just fine. Oh, and of course the install did at first work with a video spec that the monitor could see. Having said that, I do understand how frustrated you are!! I would be too. From my experience, your situation has to be something of a rarity because of the particular machine that you have. I agree with many comments in this thread. If you possibly can persevere to the point at which you can file a bug report, this will be an enormous help to the community. You don't seem to be the sort that will give up on Ubuntu and I hope you don't!!! As a last resort thing, you might want to try installing Ubuntu on a machine (any machine) that will actually run it, then adjusting the video parameters to something your laptop can run, and then cloning the working machine onto your laptop hard-drive (maybe using gparted or something similar). Sounds hard, but is quite simple. Then prepare to be amazed by the fact the your cloned version will (almost certainly) run on a totally different motherboard. Windows was never like that as you well know!!!! Regards, Barry Drake -- Sent from my Dell Netbook using Ubuntu - the window-free environment that gives me real fresh air. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
