Hey guys,

Well, I have just gotten my multiboot working (Athlon64 3500+/MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI/NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT/WinXP/WinXP64/Ubuntu) now when I get through Grub my screen goes all twacked out and displays something reminiscent of the "out of frequency range" distorted color bars. From the safe mode command line I get as far as "gdm" or "startx" and I get a no screens found error. during install I made 1280x1024 res an option. Is that the problem as there is no driver capable of supporting that res present? or should it still work at a 1024 default? Do I change "nv" to "vesa"? I am at a loss.

-Thank you for your consideration,

-Kurt

If you have a problem with grub and lines running down the screen like this: http://coolaj86.homedns.org:4887/gal...goes-crazy.jpg
then the problem is with the 'splashimage' line in /boot/grub/grub.conf not pointing to the right place. You can play with it, or you can just comment it out.

For X problems, I highly recommend using the Ubuntu LiveCD. Boot up with that and copy it as your /etc/X11/XF86Config (backup up the existing one first). Also, I find that knoppix works quite well for this too (but it's called /etc/X11/XF86Config-4).

Are you using warty worthog or hoary hedgehog?

Be sure to hit up the official Ubuntu forums as well, it's a great community.

well, the live cd does the same thing. I have narrowed it down to X as it occurs after grub has finished. The error occurs at the point where I should see the GDM login screen. Both livecd and installed crack out at the same place. Thank you for the thought though, it helped me narrow things a bit more.

-Kurt

No problem, happy to help and willing to lend a helping hand.

Sounds like the next step would be to use knoppix and run `diff /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /mnt/hda2/etc/X11/XF86Config` YMMV.

Cool AJ. I just shot over to the Ubuntu forums and copied to it. I hope they are all as positive as you have been. Have a great night man.

-Kurt

Your welcome. Give a holla back if you're still having trouble.