Garbled Screen EVERY TIME, please help?

dannyboy374 · 05-25-2006, 06:29 PM

every time i logon, or should i say, attempt to logon, i put in my user name, then password, then the whold screen garbles up and freezes, but i can still use my mouse. can't go out to the command line after it freezes either. it does the same thing with every distribution any ideas? i assume it's a video thing but everything runs fine in windows and everywhere else.

AMD athlon 64 x2 4800+
Corsair xms 3200 2GB
wd raptor 10krpm 36gb,74gb.
msi k8n neo4 platinum nforce4
bfg 7800gtx

pljvaldez · 05-25-2006, 06:36 PM

To get to a command line, try Alt-F1. This should give you a text login. You can do this before trying to enter your username and password.

As for fixing the video, from the command line I would try sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and try a different driver. Usually "VESA" works for generic hardware. Hope that helps...