[PLUG] Upgrading Ubuntu from 9.10 to 10.04

[Richard C. Steffens]

John Jason Jordan wrote:
> The Ubuntu forums are massive compared to any other distro, and they
> have a pretty good search utility. I'd recommend searching on "VIA" to
> see what turns up. 

Nothing.

> If nothing turns up, post yourself in an appropriate
> forum. I've had excellent results posting about various problems that I
> have had over the years.
>   

I have found some of my answers using that route. I'll give VIA a try in 
the area where 10.04 login loop resides.

> Bear in mind also that from the Grub boot menu the Recovery Mode will
> boot you to a command line. I have found this extremely handy when
> fixing video problems because it allows you to log in without loading
> X. From the command line you can use wget and dpkg or apt-get to
> install different video drivers or reconfigure the video.
>   

One of the things that worked in the past was to get a command line 
login and run:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

Unfortunately, that did not work this time. I'll include that in my 
Ubuntu Forum post and see if anyone has other ideas.

> I also find it interesting that your video works in 9.10 but not 10.04.
> This smells like someone changed the video driver for 10.04, and
> apparently not for the better. Maybe you can find the older driver and
> install it instead of the new one. To find a driver that works try live
> CDs for other versions of Ubuntu or other distros. If you find one
> where the video works fine, check out which video driver it is using.
>   

Since if works fine in 9.10, then I'll see if I can figure out what to 
put where and give that a try.

Thanks for the ideas.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens