screwed up

[Wes Morgan]

Hello:
Greetings from XP. I tried to set up Ubuntu for dual monitors. One
DVI and the other AVG. I ended up with nothing but a black screen with
an a X for a cursor on it. Rebooting did nothing. I have tried booting
with an Ubuntu rescue disk, but I cannot even convince my computer to
boot from a DVD through F11. The system just reverts to the standard
screen to boot to either Ubuntu or XP. Any suggestions?

Wes Morgan

[Hippy Nerd]

boot the computer to linux, after it boots up and gives you a black
screen with the X, you can switch to a console with CTRL-ALT-F2 ( or
F4, F3, F1,...) and that should open a console full screen where you
can login, and check the output of dmesg (type dmesg and hit enter at
the command line), and find out details of whats going on during boot,
and when it tries to load up X. You can also cd to /var/log/ and look
through various log files for errors. nano /var/log/Xorg.0.log will
open your X log files with nano, where you can review what happened
while it tried to load. If you dont like nano, you could just cat the
file to the console.

After you find some errors, try googling them and see what other
people say about that error, someone else has probably had that
problem and solved it, all you have to do is find the solution.

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[Wes Morgan]

I must have screwed this up real good. 
I hope I have not gotten to the point where I have not damaged the installation itself. 

sudo xfix  wouldn't process


Didn't work
sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
sudo apt-get remove compiz
sudo apt-get remove compiz-core
dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.notworking
sudo X -configure
sudo cp ~/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Right now when I enter dmesg, the computer gets caught up on    loading extension GLX

Wes Morgan