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Hello everyone,

I’ve been using Ubuntu for about a year now and I’m slowly learning it’s workings. Mostly problems I solve by trial-and-error with a little help from the internet.

One problem I haven´t been able to resolve. Whenever I try to bring up a console (alt-ctrl-F1,F2, etc.) my screen goes runny white, looking almost as if it’s melting. Alt-ctrl-F7 returns me to Ubuntu without problems. This strange screen also appears when shutting down and between logging out and logging back in.

When I originally installed Ubuntu (10.10) the consoles worked fine. The problem only started after I upgraded to 11.04 and persisted after I got 11.10.

I tried fiddling around with some of the suggestions on the internet (mostly the VGA= setting in Grub, changed from ’799′ to ‘normal’), but nothing seems to have any noticable effect.

Hopefully someone can help me fix this problem. You’d make me a very happy Ubuntu-user! (Ubuntuser? )

Thanks in advance!

Heinus Horatius.

My system:

Sony Vaio VPCF12M1E
Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit
Nvidia GeForce GT 330M – Driver 285.05.09 – Screen res. 1920×1080

It has been a long time since I played with a linux flavor. After messing with osx86 for awhile, I decided to come back to ubuntu. I installed from a USB stick. The install process went flawlessly, with no apparent graphical glitches. Once the computer booted up after the initial reboot the graphics are very glitchy. I can’t see any much of anything other than the cursor. The edges are striped black and white and I am getting a screen-door effect over the entire desktop. At the login screen everything is fine…I don’t know of keyboard shortcuts to try to change resolutions or any of that other stuff (like I said, it’s been QUITE some time since I have played with linux.)

Should I try to reinstall or is this a simple fix?

BTW, it was installed on a Dell Dimension 9150 with an ATI gfx card.