I worked around this problem temporarily the folowing way. This problem is on a friends computer, which he uses a lot, and I didn't have time to do a full reinstall of intrepid. Maybe this can be of use to somebody else.
- installed xserver-xfbdev - updated grub's menu.lst to include a vga=791 (and removed silent and splash) (which initialises the screen to 1024x... and provided /dev/fb0 for Xfbdev, find out usable resolutions using hwinfo --framebuffer) - Created a basic initscript that - launches Xfbdev with default drivers (as found via a google search) - runs 'su $USER -c "DISPLAY=:0 gnome-session" ', replace $USER with the user to auto-login - using sysv-rc-conf disabled gdm and enabled my script in the gdm runlevels -- Xserver startup messes up the framebuffer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367249 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
