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Trying out Ubuntu, installation went fine - upgraded to the proprietary nVidia drivers but on restart I get a login prompt and the screen is flashing really fast almost as if Xserver is trying to start and failing, I can type when the screen isn't in a "flash" as it were and it's so fast and random it's hard to even type a login name without it missing some characters - this makes typing a password (i.e. not being able to see which characters made it or not) very hard.
I can log back into the live cd and alter my settings - but I can't even find out how to stop X stop starting on boot; Looks like they've moved everything around :-p
I'd like to:
- Stop X from crashing and going insane (if it is actually Xserver)
- Know how to stop X from starting on bootup, Looks like interactive boot is also off by default now
Update: A temporary work around seems to be enabling ssh and just connecting to the box over the network - ssh seems to work fine :-p
Cheers, Chris
I've tried adding in the "DontZap" option and this may have worked; It takes so long to reboot into the live cd I've not "tested" it yet but I had a boot where the screen was flickering and then all of a sudden it started the login screen - so maybe it did change somthing. – Christopher Lightfoot – 2009-10-17T20:26:31.553
Tried enabling Xinerama and got stuck in the same loop, so it doesn't seem to make a difference. – Christopher Lightfoot – 2009-10-17T21:42:59.293