I have a similar problem in 7.10 with a GeForce 6200 card and a 15 inch Kogi TFT monitor. I was able to get the live cd to load by choosing the safe graphics option (don't recall the specific wording of the choice). Once it installed I got the "Out of Range" message on my monitor again at boot up, and I thought it was hosed. However, pretty soon it came back and booted up fine. I installed the nvidia driver and copied the monitor and screen sections from my old xorg.conf file (from 7.04 on the same system), but neither fixed the problem. I'm going to do some more research on it and post a thread on it here if I can't figure it out. Right now it is more of a nuisance than anything else because it still boots up fine.

FYI, the vbetool 100% CPU usage problem was happening quite a bit (almost every resume while on battery power). It would basically resume into the black/blank screen, then I could Ctrl+Alt+F7 my way back to X11, only to find that vbetool tool was hogging the CPU completely. Anyhow, just wanted to post that I seem to have managed to work around this. On my Dell e1405, editing the /etc/default/acpi-support file seems to have done the trick.

I commented these lines:And I removed the comment from this one:I am now able to resume while on battery power without the blank screen or vbetool problem. I'm still not exactly sure why this behavior would manifest itself while on battery power only. I might take a closer look at the scripts when I get some time, but for now this workaround at least makes the laptop resume/suspend usable while on battery. I hope this might help anyone having similar issues. If anyone knows of a more proper fix, please do share.

Hey

I am getting a blank screen when the login page should be displayed, also get a blank screen on the live cd, never happened with 7.04. My video card is an ATI Radeon 7500, in a Dell Inspiron 5100. So far I can't find a solution for this. Really don't even know where to start. Any help would be appreciated.

Have you tried booting the Livecd with the Safe graphics option? It's something like that, believe it's the second option on the splash screen.

If still no go, download the Alternate install cd and use the text installer. It requires more input, but you can see what's going on.
If your system is memory constrained, this is sometimes the only option.
Had to use it on 192K presario.

Good luck, let me know if this works for you.

Texasjim

I had the black screen problem in the boot CD but I fixed it.

I think there is something wrong with the Xorg configuration utility since it guessed the wrong settings for my monitor and wrote what looks like invalid syntax in the Modes section. Using my old Xorg.conf from Feisty works, but this is not the only distro that has given me the blank screen but no X11 error message problem. I tried the latest GParted CD and I am getting a blank screen even in VESA graphics mode. Unfortunately, I couldn't use Ctrl+Alt+F_ to get to another login terminal to fix it in GParted. It didn't work.

I suspect that since other Nvidia users don't seem to have this issue, it may be my old CRT monitor's fault. I plan on getting an LCD monitor with my christmas money. It's time to move on to something better besides this old ugly energy waster I've been looking at for nearly 9 years.

Now that I've used 7.10 for some time (longer than a coffee break ) I can't say I have trouble with it. Nothing. This time even my wireless hardware started working without "manual interference", trough RDM - very nice. I guess I'm lucky not having nVidia/ATI graphics card; I don't need those in my work, so I don't need to take the hassle with their drivers. I have installed those (trough RDM, without trouble - one machine was dealt with "manual" ATI driver installation just out of curiosity, but no problems there) on some friends' machines, and the only problems after that have been occational crashes/freezes of X, which seem to be due to the graphics cards. But if we're talking about Ubuntu now, and not proprietary drivers, I'm very pleased, as there are no crashes, freezes or slow-downs now like there have been in the past sometimes..even boot times are pretty nice (especially now that hibernation and suspend work out-of-the-box along with this version of Ubuntu).

Overall I'm smiling because this particular laptop has some nice pieces of hardware - a SiS graphics card with shared video RAM which doesn't do much 3d, a Broadcom 4318 wireless card which was said to be a pain in the past (well, it really is not) and such. I've learned to configure those fast enough, having used several distributions on different machines with those kinds of hardware parts (especially that 43xx wifi card), but it's always nice to notice that the operating system actually does it for you, not with you.

And I have not noticed slowness in the reposities or download servers..maybe there isn't any now that the release is not shiny new anymore, and most hot-heads have got their software. Synaptic/apt/Add-Remove have not crashed a single time in this version, again a reason to smile

Considering the sound of the text above, tomorrow something is going to break up. Well, I don't care much - christmas is coming.

So far the alternate install cd has yielded the same results. As for the safe graphics mode, gnome did start, but was a total mess. There were at least two desktop images layered on top of the other, and not aligned, which made use almost impossible.

I have but it appears to be mirror specific. I guess you just picked a better mirror than I did originally.

the kubuntu iso is totally hosed
it says that there are updates avalable (adept updater) as you would expect,
installing them gives an error that leaves you with an unstable system...

if you want kubuntu i recomend installing ubuntu 7.10, updating using synaptic,
then isnatlling the kubuntu-desktop metapakage... that solves all the bugs ive had