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Re: ...And thus ends my experience with Kubuntu. At least for now.



 On Sunday 28 October 2007, David Kramer wrote: 
> It wouldn't bring up XWindows.  I just got a blank screen. 
> 
> In safe graphics mode, I (after a few tries) got a blue background and a 
> white cursor for a few seconds, then that died, too.  I end up back at 
> the text mode list of starting processes, the last one being 
> /etc/rc.local, but nothing happens after that. 
> 
> Yes, I verified the media. 
> Yes I burned a second disk and got the same results. 
> 
> Graphics card is an evga GeForce 8600 GT.  Apparently, I'm not alone. 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell/+bug/121163
> 
> Maybe I'll try it again some day on another machine (like my existing 
> server, once the new one is online.  I am *so* not doing a text-mode 
> install. 


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