Video adapter problems.

[butthead]

Recently I installed BT4 R2 on a core I-3 system with Intel HD 2000 graphics.
There is also an ATI X300 PCI-E card present.

I couldn't get the screen resolution @ 1600*1200 on the Intel, and from what I read, installing Intel drivers is a pit of a pain in the a$$, so I decided to install the ATI drivers instead, but after rebooting and startx, I got a garbled screen, replacing xorg.conf also didn't help, neither did fixing xserver in the recovery mode.

As a sidenote, I didn't install the ATI drivers in the right way, I should have generated the right packages for my distro, and here is my question, what is the exact Ubuntu version for this release of BT4??

[sickness]

Backtrack is based on Ubuntu 8.10

[butthead]

Backtrack is based on Ubuntu 8.10

Thanks for that, I'll give it another swing, and see if it worx.

[eyeofspace]

Try downloading the ati linux drivers from the ati website, I had a problem with my graphics card like this recently and It solved it.

[butthead]

I did DL the drivers from AMD/ATI, but got too much problems, the open source ATI drivers however did the trick!

And here's the howto:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7505004

When it was working again, I made my onboard graphics adapter primary, but after that I got the same screen as in the beginning, and since I don't want to change bios settings every time I boot BT, I decided to install the Intel graphics, but it needs a lot of upgrading, and of course some crucial stuff wasn't online/available at the moment, so I will try it again later........