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May 27, 2010

I got a new monitor for christmas this year and just reinstalled ubuntu (jaunty) not too long ago, like about a month. I finally got around to updating about two or three weeks ago to lucid. Now my monitor and lucid are fighting like some crazed technological married couple. Basically, when I boot, a screen resembling kernel panic comes up for a while, and then normal boot resumes. A box comes up and says "monitor config file is either blank or contained only whitespace". If my computer limps itself along to the desktop, I find that my resolution is stuck on 1900x1080 and the icons that usually exist on my top panel are either gone or moved to the right. Under Preferences > Monitors it says unknown for my monitor, I only have the 1900x1080 option for res and my refresh rate says zero hertz.

Beyond that, my computer seems to enjoy randomly rebooting itself (sometimes even before it reaches the boot options screen) and my monitor has strange streaks/dots running up, down and across it that change when I hit keys or move the mouse, even without changing anything on screen. I know that that's alot of info to sort through but I've tried all sorts of things far and wide trying to fix this. Including screwing with xorg.conf and trying to install the ATI proprietary drivers.

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Code:

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Some specs:

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Code:

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