I just tried again to boot the 9.04 'jaunty' CD - I was unable to get a console with ctrl-alt-F1, trying several times before and after the screen started displaying the little windows saying the current screen mode. Apparently the driver is trying a number of modes, and doesn't get feedback from the monitor that any mode does work.
Now this did come up with a useable mode in earlier versions of Ubuntu. And also Windows XP does come up with a working mode - it boots fine (this is a dual-boot system). It would be really nice if the boot process would come up with a manual selection of screen modes, including 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions and maybe some other parameters, when mode selection fails after a while. I tried the Jaunty disk on an Averatec laptop (model 3280) that has similar problems. After some time it came up with a menu which allowed me to get into a shell in a small window - I didn't proceed further since the existing OS was a recent Debian, not Ubuntu, so I didn't have the right xorg.conf file to try. Another approach would be to create a driver CD with the experimental driver - apparently one can preinstall such a driver before actually booting the OS CD. Also being able to configure xorg.conf manually would be desirable. Peter On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Tormod Volden <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it not possible to switch to a console with ctrl-alt-F1? > > I was hoping you could get X running with the vesa driver, and then > install the patched driver from the internet. If you have it already > downloaded on the hard drive, that's even better, especially in the case > vesa won't work. As long as you can log in on the console, that is. > > Then mount your hard drive with "sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" (replace > sda1 with the name of the right partition) and install the driver with > "sudo dpkg -i /mnt/home/peter/Desktop/xserver-xorg-video-savage*" or > whatever is the right path to the deb package. > > -- > No signal with Samsung SyncMaster 750s and ProSavage8 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294899 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- No signal with Samsung SyncMaster 750s and ProSavage8 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294899 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
