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Trying to start 13.04 after a recent installation.

A window appears that says "Cannot correctly detect the screen, graphics card, and input device settings" You will need to set these yourself. Standby as display restarts" Then there is only a terminal window, which says "* Checking battery state ... [ok]" and it just hangs there and does nothing and does not respond to any input"

any suggestions?

thanks, stephen

Stephen Kramer
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  • Additional info: It did launch and run correctly several times before I installed a program, it is only now after the installation it does this. But I can't get into the program to fix it!! – Stephen Kramer Oct 14 '13 at 16:53
  • Could you add information such as what model of computer or graphics card you have? – Richard Oct 14 '13 at 17:37
  • HP Pavillion tx1308nr: Vista Home Premium, 32bit, SP2, DirectX v10.0. Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150, driver v179.91. – Stephen Kramer Oct 14 '13 at 21:13
  • This seems to be most applicable. However, I don't see anything in my boot commands that says "quiet splash" or "nomodeset". I have screen shots of whats in there but I guess I can't copy the text or attach the pics here. – Stephen Kramer Oct 15 '13 at 00:41
  • Please post screenshot, in comment or in question body as link, we'll edit the question to add it properly. – saji89 Jan 06 '14 at 09:57

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So I reinstalled 13.04 after struggling with modifying the boot commands which didn't seem to accomplish much. I gave a larger disk space allocation, it started fine.

thank you all for your help

thanks stephen

Stephen Kramer
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  • The issue may be that if you update the kernel after installing proprietary graphics drivers, the module does not get carried over. So reinstalling the graphics drivers via command line in Recovery Mode would solve that. – Richard Oct 15 '13 at 11:55
  • @Stephen please never post thanks, Stephen, ir any other irrelevant text in any post anywhere in the Stack Exchange Network -- it adds unnecessary noise/length to a page. – mickmackusa Dec 01 '21 at 23:04
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Install the system again or it is better to have 12.04. I think it supports more hardware stuff. Check this link

https://help.ubuntu.com/13.04/installation-guide/index.html

Maybe you will find an answer

kohahoha
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    "Maybe you will find an answer" <-- Please be more specific or just don't answer a question; it's not useful to just post general links without actually answering the question here. – gertvdijk Oct 14 '13 at 19:07
  • Thanks but I didn't see much there applied to my condition – Stephen Kramer Oct 14 '13 at 21:12