Monitor problem?

Hey all, I'm an ubuntu newb, and after finally somehow reformatting my lenovo thinkpad t61p's harddrive, I got XP working and linux was next. When I installed linux it needed Nvidea drivers and now I can't boot up, I get a blank screen. Any ideas of where to start?

Please help me

Have you tried booting up into recovery mode and picking 'fix X'? I think that should have the appropriate effect.

Else pick 'root shell' and enter the following. (Omit the hashmarks; that's just syntax convention to show it should be entered in a terminal as root - which you are, in recovery mode.)

# cd /etc/X11
# mv xorg.conf xorg.backup0812
# dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
# exit

Then pick 'start x' or whatever the entry is named, to try to start the graphical environment.

Zorael said: Have you tried booting up into recovery mode and picking 'fix X'? I think that should have the appropriate effect.

Else pick 'root shell' and enter the following. (Omit the hashmarks; that's just syntax convention to show it should be entered in a terminal as root - which you are, in recovery mode.)

# cd /etc/X11
# mv xorg.conf xorg.backup0812
# dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
# exit

Then pick 'start x' or whatever the entry is named, to try to start the graphical environment. I can't see why this wouldn't work Oneofchaos. Have you had success or what?

I downloaded nvidia drivers through the shell script on the nvidia site that requires you to shutdown your x server to install the drivers, and when it got done installing, all I get is a black screen. Its not frozen though because when I hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 I get a command prompt. I tried doing many things with xorg.conf, but to no avail, I even tried # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg but it still doesn't work

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