Public bug reported:
I'm using the Ubuntu 11.10 Daily LiveCD from 21 Jul 2011.
I'm on a Asus EeePC T91MT.
The Intel GMA500 has always been problematic with Intel basically
refusing to support it, however in the past it did at least start on
older Ubuntu versions (although in an incorrect resolution and normally
required quite a bit of screwing around with drivers to get something
decent running).
The new 3.0 kernel (and 2.6.39) now has some built in psb-gfx drivers
for the chipset, they don't support hardware acceleration but should
give ok normal 2D graphics.
On boot, I get stuck at a terminal. The terminal flashes black
continuously until I 'sudo stop lightdm' (LightDM seems to fail to
detect that it's broken and just keeps trying to start, but that's
probably a different bug).
I notice in the Xorg.log there is a "vesa: Ignoring device with a bound
kernel driver".
There is a kernel module 'poulsbo' loaded.
If it 'rmmod poulsbo' and then 'sudo start lightdm' then xorg starts
correctly.
My best guess is xorg isn't correctly configured to use the new psb-gfx
drivers.
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Oneiric X/LightDM doesn't start on an Intel GMA500
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