(See comment #142 for current version and boot problem information). I
am able to boot from the live CD in text mode, and eventually get X to
start, as follows:
Boot live CD
Hit ESC when the first welcome screen appears
When a screen with boot choices appears, first select the language (English)
The 10.10 Maverick Meerkat alpha and beta live CDs will not boot fully
on this Averatec 3280. I saw this most recently with the 10.10 Beta and
the 10.10 daily build for 19 Sept 2010. What happens is that X login
fails.
When I get to the screen which asks whether to boot live or to install
the new
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: xorg-server
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+ [ Comments added for Maveric beta versions ]
It is now impossible to boot and log in on this system from the beta-2
live CD - see comment #111.
THIS NOW SEEMS TO BE 'CURED' by running kernels from Karmic - see
comments
I have totally given up on running Ubuntu on this laptop. I have
installed first Fedora 13, and now Debian Lenny. Once properly
installed, the screen issues no longer occur, except that both of those
systems try to run the screen in 1600x1200 mode, so that installing a
custom xorg.conf is also
The situation with Lucid on this Averatec laptop is unchanged. However
today I tried booting the Fedora 13 i686 live CD. As before, with Fedora
and Ubuntu, Linux started up in a 1600x1200 mode, with only the upper-
left 1024x768 corner of the screen showing, but I was able to use the
Kernel information while running Fedora 13:
[liveu...@localhost bug555]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 6 18:44:12 UTC
2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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[K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center,
screen wraps, ttyN
As of today, this bug is still in effect. The most important issue is
that text consoles can't be used.
Booting and screen sizing issues can be worked around, especially for
the Gnome version, since the SystemPreferencesMonitor dialog is
accessible from top-panel menus; that's more difficult in
I fixed this problem in an earlier release. Sorry, I don't have notes on
how I did it. Silly me, I upgraded and lost the Linux side of a dual
boot Averatec 3280 system and I use the XPpro side until this bug is
fixed.
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[K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to
Aeb1barfo: This bug report has gone way too complicated - some of the
problems were fixed a long time ago, others persist.
Update: I've run the 10.10 Maverick Meerkat live CD on this Averatec
3280 system, and the remaining problems are:
- I can't switch to a text console. Also that has gotten
There is no change with the lastest release kernel, as of today:
2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686
GNU/Linux
I still can't switch into text consoles - I just get garbage on the
screen, as before.
Also, the first time I tried to boot after today's updates, the
** Tags added: hardy
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[K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center,
screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553
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After looking at a suggestion made for bug #455954, I installed the latest
kernel from
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/current/
namely 2.6.34-999-generic. With that running, I can switch in and out of
text consoles with ctrl-alt-F1 etc. (However the system complains about
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