On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>>   Will do, Russell. My Google searches turned up many instances in the
>> ubuntus, fedoras, and slackwares. It's apparently related to moving the
>> video modes for Intel chips into the kernel with KMS. The combination
>> apparently has many issues.
>
>   Further searching suggests that the stock kernels (which is what Pat uses
> in Slackware) do not have KMS set by default. Tomorrow morning I'll rebuild
> 2.6.36 with KMS set and see if that makes a difference.
>

You could download an Ubuntu CD, boot it in live mode (i.e. without
installing it) and see if it has the same problem.
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

Bill


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