Well having got Kubuntu to boot finally I decided to have another go. I did a fresh install to clean up all the rubbish I had been playing with.
Initially it booted up bu my display would not set to the settings I wanted so I installed fglrx. I did an aticonfig --initial and rebooted, and his is where the problems started. It came up at a resolution which my monitor cannot handle. I booted another copy of Linux and edited the xorg.conf simply adding screen resolutions. Now it booted to the login screen ok, I entered my user and password and the initial splash screen came up with all the Icons coming into focus. The screen then went black (still at correct resolution etc) except for the mouse. Everything seemed to start and the start up sound played but still a black screen. If I ctrl-alt-del then it comes up with the Logout/Shutdown options window just fine (on a black background) and went back to the login screen which displays fine.
So where do I go from here? If only there had been a gui config I could have run prior to shutting down after the fglrx install where I could have set up the card and monitor to the correct values then I would probably still have a usable system, this is the way for example it works in Mandriva. I know I have a monitor which will not auto-configure which is why I need to set it manually, once set it works perfectly so I dont want to change it just because it wont do the auto-configure.
My xorg.conf I tried was
Can anyone suggest where I go from here?
Stuart
Initially it booted up bu my display would not set to the settings I wanted so I installed fglrx. I did an aticonfig --initial and rebooted, and his is where the problems started. It came up at a resolution which my monitor cannot handle. I booted another copy of Linux and edited the xorg.conf simply adding screen resolutions. Now it booted to the login screen ok, I entered my user and password and the initial splash screen came up with all the Icons coming into focus. The screen then went black (still at correct resolution etc) except for the mouse. Everything seemed to start and the start up sound played but still a black screen. If I ctrl-alt-del then it comes up with the Logout/Shutdown options window just fine (on a black background) and went back to the login screen which displays fine.
So where do I go from here? If only there had been a gui config I could have run prior to shutting down after the fglrx install where I could have set up the card and monitor to the correct values then I would probably still have a usable system, this is the way for example it works in Mandriva. I know I have a monitor which will not auto-configure which is why I need to set it manually, once set it works perfectly so I dont want to change it just because it wont do the auto-configure.
My xorg.conf I tried was
Code:
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "aticonfig Layout" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0 EndSection Section "Module" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240" <===== I added this line after the aticonfig built this EndSubSection EndSection
Stuart
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