[SOLVED] Black screen in VNC at startup

[EdwinM]

If nothing loads up in 3 minutes, go to the Ubuntu desktop, right click with your mouse and a menu should pop up. Select the item "Terminal". You should see a shell pop up. Then type in these:

Code:

sudo ubiquity

Any error messages?

I see a pointer before vnc starts on a monitor attached to the dvi-out (or hdmi, doesn't make a difference), after that it's black. I can also F8 to minimize vnc, via the pop-up menu, and that gives me a normal desktop. So VNC seems to be running but not mirroring a desktop or something similar?
Did the install via the terminal and that seems to have done the trick.  I'm at a login screen at the attached monitor. 
Next thing get some audio out of the attached schitt-dac.

Regards,
Edwin.