no graphical interface after installation

Linux and Unix-Like Ubuntu
1

Hello everyone,

After installing Ubuntu 8.10 from DVD the Operating System boots into text mode. How do I get the graphical user environment to load.

The DVD includes a live/install that holds Intrepid Ibex (8.10)

Thanks in advance for the help,

Dirk

2

Perhaps your graphics card is not supported?

What is your computer, what is your graphics card?

Do you have and indication of drivers for your graphics card e.g.

  1. In /proc/driver, e.g. I see:
$ pwd
/proc/driver
$ ls -l nvidia
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2010-04-09 22:25 cards
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2010-04-09 22:25 patches
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-04-09 22:25 registry
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-04-09 22:25 version
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2010-04-09 22:25 warnings
$
  1. and in dmesg command output? e.g. I see in that:
[   27.809713] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   27.809720] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   27.809847] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  185.18.36  Fri Aug 14 17:18:04 PDT 2009
  1. and lsmod output? e.g. I see in that:
video                  19380  0 
output                  2780  1 video
intel_agp              27676  0 
agpgart                34988  2 nvidia,intel_agp

Does running:

lspci

list your graphics card?
e.g. in my case I see:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] (rev a1)

Is Ubuntu running at run level 2?

[code]
$ who -r
run-level 2 2010-04-09 19:50
$

You have the graphical output selected, that is press the <ctrl> + <alt> + <F7> keys together as opposed to one of the command line interfaces (e.g. press the <ctrl> + <alt> + <F1> keys)?