[C] Freezing problem

[Billabond1]

Hi everyone, this is my first post here! 

Let me start by saying that I have had nothing but trouble with kubuntu thus far.  First, I could not get the normal cd to even boot into the livecd part.  I had to get the text based install.  I got it to install.

Now here is the problem.  Everytime I boot, I get to the logon screen and log on.  Then within a few minutes everything locks up.  Sometimes it does not lock up, but it goes to a black screen and thent takes me back to the logon screen.  Then it will lock up after that.

I even tried to go into command line only mode and it somehow managed to lock up in that too.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[askrieger]

Re: [C] Freezing problem

Unless your problems with the live CD were due to a bad burn (happens sometimes), you seem to have a problem that (K)ubuntu is not working well with your hardware. Is your system unusual in any way? For example, are you installing on a cell phone, or a supercomputing mainframe?

One thing that oftem works is to go into the text only "recovery mode" and try the command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". That gives you a chance to tell Kubuntu what kind of video setup you have.

[Billabond1]

Re: [C] Freezing problem

Thanks for your response!

My computer specs are
Athlon 64 3200+
Ati Radeon X800xl video
1 gig ram, etc.

After playing with it a little more, i did reconfigure xserver and set the device to vesa. This took care of the freezing problem.

Thanks for your help. My next venture is getting compiz to work.

[Billabond1]

Re: [C] Freezing problem

actually, the problem does not appear to be fixed.

It randomly restarts x or just freezes.

But...if i am in recovery mode and i type startx, it come up and works fine.

Any ideas?