Ubuntu Installation issue - Page 5

I will try this when I get home, but I also wanted to point out that when I tried to apt-get mesa-utils, it tells me that it is not available.

So I installed the xorg video driver and sure enough startx finally worked and I was able to boot into the login screen. Now before everyone gets excited, after logging in, the top bar and the "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS" disappear and BOOM everything freezes and screen goes black. Next thing I know the monitor kicks into power save mode and tells me that there is no active connection. I honestly do not understand what is going on, you guys have been amazing help I must say! Thank you for not giving up on me! I will keep on this, because I would really like a successful install!


"dpkg -l mesa*" lists out mesa-utils and mesa in a row by row fashion. The left-most column says "un" for both of them. Version column says "no version" and description column says "no description".

The kernel version is 3.5+

While it is very frustrating that this is not working, it doesn't deter me away from Linux at all. I have had an Ubuntu install on an old Core 2 Extreme system before this that had a GTX580 for school and it installed without a hitch. I would think if it was a non-integrated GPU that there would be a higher possibility of an issue happening, not with an IGP. But I guess it's due to the fact that the Ivy Bridge processor is so new that drivers aren't quite supported yet.


Come to think of it when I was on intellinuxgraphics.org, the latest version of the driver listed my 3rd generation ivy-bridge processor with the 2500IGP as being supported. Is there a way that I can use that driver or does the xserver-xorg-video-intel pull that specific driver? In addition to that, I went ahead and checked the Xorg.0.log and it looks like the intel driver is working correctly as I am now seeing a bunch of intel(0) lines. This to me seems to mean that the intel driver is doing its thing, but I guess you guys can let me know if I am just seeing things that aren't there.

Once again, I appreciate all of this help and I promise I will not give up on this! I want my Ubuntu Ivy-Bridge box!!

Do you mean a complete reinstall of Ubuntu? I could try that, but should I then try to do just simply Ubuntu Desktop 64bit or alternative?

I just did a reinstall with nosetmode and it looked like it was working. No graphical hitches at all and looked like the GUI was working well for the install. However, when I restarted, I again got all of the weird graphic issues. It told me that there was a GPU hang and like 5 other errors popped up, but the GUI was fine after a little bit. The updater popped up with no other top bar GUI and it ran its course. Once it was finished, it asked for a restart and so it restarted. Once it booted back up, I got the same problem. Graphical hitches followed by flashing screen from desktop to black screen until my monitor finally goes into power save mode.

I thought it almost was fixed! damn