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I have a HP pavilion 15z with Windows 8. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it (graphical intallation) and when I rebooted it at the end, it only goes into text mode. When trying startx it shows a "fatal server error: No screen found".

When trying to use the "Try Ubuntu" option of the LiveUSB it also boots only in text mode.

Jawa
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FidelVe
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  • do you use nvidia card? and does the error say enything else? – Stormvirux Aug 19 '13 at 16:21
  • the laptop have a radeon 8330g if am not mistaken, and this is what the error when i tried to run "startx" http://imgur.com/x30Tks5 http://imgur.com/j1sDige http://imgur.com/x30Tks5 – FidelVe Aug 19 '13 at 17:49
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    Please delete the contents of `/var/log/Xorg.0.log`, run `startx`, and then post the contents of that file after `X` fails to start. – Darth Android Aug 19 '13 at 18:03
  • thanks for the reply.. how can i save the content of the log and post it here? when i boot into ubuntu is in text mode only and am not to good at using text mode.. – FidelVe Aug 19 '13 at 18:11
  • @DarthAndroid this is the content of the Xorg http://pastebin.com/hBQQwWX0 – FidelVe Aug 21 '13 at 00:24
  • There's definately something weird going on with your graphics card and linux: `(EE) VESA(0): V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range`. I don't think I've seen the `vesa` driver fail like that before, which suggests that either the graphics card or another piece of hardware isn't fully supported. (VESA is the common, standardized interface for graphics cards, commonly associated with "safemode"; It's not the prettiest, but it should almost always work) – Darth Android Aug 21 '13 at 14:33

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One likely solution to your problem is to delete the xorg.conf.

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Probably would be backup the file too, just in case.

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