After some research, I was able to run the 10.04.3 live CD on this system as follows:
When booting the live CD, bring up the boot options by hitting ESC, select the language, then hit F6 to bring up some options. Select 'nomodeset' and continue. Eventually the system came up in text mode, as it was unable to determine a proper screen resolution. I then copied in an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with very basic settings, including lists of allowable screen resolutions (this is in the attached tar file). After that, I ran gdm, and the Gnome display appeared after a few minutes. The tar file also includes /var/log/Xorg.0.log and Xorg.1.log, from after and before installing xorg.conf The screen is a Samsung SyncMaster 570S tft 1024x768 panel. It does not provide proper screen resolution information to the system, unlike many other monitors in recent years. This is a workaround, not a patch! Note again that 11.x live CDs do detect the screen resolution and bring up the display properly. ** Attachment added: "xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log, Xorg.1.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/707755/+attachment/2224574/+files/xfiles.tar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/707755 Title: Xorg usually won't start on Compaq system with nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] and nVidia chipset To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/707755/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
