[plug] ubuntu live dvd

[Jim Householder]

Michael Holland wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Jim Householder wrote:
> 
>> I selected the first menu entry to start ubuntu.  Things appeared to
>> proceed normally (no errors reported).  Then the screen went black.
> 
> How far did you get? No more choices after the boot menu?
> You saw the graphics console, but X didn't work ?
>
No more choices were presented after the boot menu.  After some booting 
messages in brown the screen went blank.  X appeared to be working but 
displaying nothing.

>> would enter standby mode.  Neither keyboard nor mouse had any effect.
> 
> Did you try CTRL-ALT-F1 to get out of X, back to the console, or
> ctrl-alt-backspace?
> Otherwise how were able to view the log ?
> 
Ctrl-alt-F2.  C-a-backspace terminated X, which then restarted.


>> I just tried again and found a number of error messages at the end of
>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log indicating problems accessing /dev/wacom.
> 
> The wacom stuff is normal. You can ignore it.
> 
> If you e-mail me the Xorg.0.log, I'll take a look.

Thanks.  I will try again and save the log file and the xorg.conf that 
was used.

Rather odd:  I tried c-a-F1 to F8 and got the following:
F1:  logged in to :0 - normal bash prompt
F2 - F6:  logged in to tty1, tty5, tty2, tty4, tty3
F7:  no signal.  However c-a-backspace causes the signal to be asserted 
briefly until X has restarted.
F8:  looks like a boot log.

> 
> Otherwise, it might be easiest to do a text-mode install, and then
> fix X afterwards.
> 
I really don't want to install, just check it out.

Jim