Ubuntu X Window Problem

Dathai

Lo All,
Im a first time Linux user, I tried to install kUbuntu a while back, but failed miserably.Today I tried to install Ubuntu 5.10 off a cd I copied the ISO to, seemed to be going swimmingly, that was until I restarted the machine to let it install itself from HDD partition(no disk in the CD ROM drive if you follow me).
Installed ok, but then as it came to the login (like a DOS screen) a message came up saying that the X Window Server , Xorg wasnt installed properly.So, I reinstalled, formatting the partitions, and reinstalling. Went through everything again, and same problem.No GUI.
This time, I went back to a sheet I had with a code for the xserver, which was "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" which let me adjust screen resolution etc, I then restarted my machine.Same problem.
Could anyone be able to offer any advice?

niallb

Maybe there's simply a problem with the driver.
What kind of graphics card do you have?
What kind of monitor?


NiallB

Dathai

My graphics card is Radeon X600 256MB HyperMemory Secondary.
My monitor is a Dell 20inch, 1024x768/32Bit/75Hz

Not sure if thats too much but I hope it gives more insight

niallb

Login at the console prompt and try this:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx-control linux-restricted-modules
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg 

Select fglrx when asked to pick a driver.
It may complain about the restricted-modules.
If so, type in 'uname -r' at the command line,
and type the characters returned after the word modules.
i.e. sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx-control linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-686

Once you have X working, you can use the ATI control panel
to change resolutions etc, and setup TV mode.

Let us know how far that gets you,
best of luck,
NiallB

Dathai

Yeah, the package couldnt be found or something along those lines.Did everything you said, and the driver never came up when I reconfigured.Any more help?

niallb

Dathai wrote:

Yeah, the package couldnt be found or something along those lines.

No good to me.
Which package? Exactly what error did you get?

NiallB

Dathai

E: Unable to locate package : 'linux-restricted-modules'

niallb

niallb wrote:

It may complain about the restricted-modules.
If so, type in 'uname -r' at the command line,
and type the characters returned after the word modules.

Did you try this?
Type it in now, and post it here if you like.
uname -r
The modules are built for each kernel, and the version needs to match.

Try the original command without the modules package, as in

sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx-control

Does that give an error?

NiallB

niallb

Any joy?

scojones

I guess this silence means a yes.

Dathai

Actually no, no joy at all.I tried all of the above, nothing worked.The package couldnt be found as I said in my previous post. And yes, I did try the uname-r still no joy

niallb

Hi Dathai,
sorry to hear that.
What did uname -r say?

apt-cache search linux-restricted-modules should give
a list of all the versions available. It needs to match the kernel
version reported by uname.

Good luck,
NiallB

Dathai

Success!

For some reason, the install worked this time, and not last time And I did everything exactly the same.
I was playing around with it last night, GNOME really bored me, so I switched to KDE to get a bit of play time in with it, might switch onto XUbuntu in the near future, just to be familiar with it.

Thanks for the help niallb, very much appreciated.

MrVestek

Welcome to the world of Linux... you'll enjoy it and the challenges it brings.

djmarkus

And when u do get it the way u like it you'll take comfort in the fact it wont grind it self to a halt like windows does

Dathai

The only problem with it I have is the uber slowness of the internet browsers, like I can download at a grand rate, ~300kb/s, but connecting to a site is just like Im on dial-up again.Seriously a massive head wrecker.

niallb

They're not slow.
You have a problem.

Who's your ISP?

It sounds like a nameserver problem.
check the file /etc/resolv.conf
and let us know what's written there.

NiallB

MrVestek

All of the browsers? Firefox, Konqueror and the likes? All of them are slow?!

Stephen

Sounds like your system is trying to resolve ipv6 names first, waiting for that to time out and then going ahead with ipv4. In firefox i just go to about:config and toggle network.dns.disableIPv6 to true. It'll be different if you use a different browser. You might need to disable ipv6 systemwide.

niallb

To disable ipv6 systemwide,
find the file /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
look for the line containing
alias net-pf-10 ipv6
and edit it to read
alias net-pf-10 off
Add the line
alias ipv6 off below it.

Then run update-modules and reboot (It seems to need an actual reboot)

It may already be off.
You should also set
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.autoconf = 0
net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf = 0
net.ipv6.conf.lo.autoconf = 0
in /etc/sysctl.conf

It's just a bug in a current release,
so don't expect to have to do this every time.

Hope it helps,
NiallB