Tony, I apologize that my skills in this area are nigh nil. I will forward this to a friend (nalioth) that is very helpful. you may find him in an ubuntu help chat. when he responds - i will send it to you and that will be more likely to help than my following postulations.
If you don't hear back soon enough - here is my two cents... What I would do, having looked at page 29 in the attached tech data - they point out in the book the setting is not configurable. is see if updating the VGA bios, if not System BIOS would be a good idea. I noticed also a multi-display setting/utility that probably never intended to stand behind an open-source OS, so an update probably won't help this issue. If I get down to updating BIOS - I just figure it is out of date and replace. As illustrated below - very little is accomplished in the time (over a year) taken to brute force investigate an annoyance if I can get around the issue and on with using my computer. my experience with this bug was that I was beat. After experimenting with BIOS settings one setting at a time and hoping I did not have to try changing two settings at a time (and back again), once I found the problem, I tried "just one more" setting that totally blanked the screen (zero VGA share memory size). I was so blindy furious I just built a new system. I had learned so much from what didn't work. I forgot something simple like removing the CMOS battery resets the BIOS. I opted instead for shoving it into another case for a little child genius that loved the experience and made a new system for 400USD in parts. Word to the wise - make sure that if your new motherboard has a separate CPU power header, that your power supply has that connector, or at least the adapter. Gosh darn those guys at Fry's. Now running ubuntu 11.10 64 bit. Then I remembered the CMOS battery remove and count to 10 (sage advice there) install new battery. I set everything back and upgraded to 11.04 and then 11.10 and everything worked with the maximum VGA memory share. Hopefully you can hold out til I get aholta nalioth. The Terry On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Tony Sherwood <[email protected]>wrote: > Is there another way around this bug? > > I have an Acer Aspire 4330 laptop with the same login loop problem, but > the BIOS doesn't allow me to set VGA share memory size. > > I have gotten around the issue so far by installing slim in place of > gdm, but I'd prefer to use gdm in the future if at all possible. Is > there a way to change gdm to recognize the VGA memory limit since > there's no BIOS setting for it? > > ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) > Status: Expired => Opinion > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567029 > > Title: > Login failure loop with Ubuntu 10.04 > > Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: > Opinion > > Bug description: > I installed both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu 10.04 Beta > 2. After install, where automatically login, or request password was > chosen the Ubuntu chimes sound and then the screen goes black. The > chimes repeat every second or two, with the screen remaining blank. > The system is completely non-responsive and the Num Lock, Caps Lock > and Scroll lock lights flash on and off repeatedly on the keyboard. I > am running Ubuntu on a Intel Core 2 Q6600, with 8Gb of RAM, A DFI > Lanparty motherboard, Two ATI Radeon 4850's installed as crossfire. As > is I cannot use 10.04 as both versions do this. I am reporting this > bug from Windows. If there is more information needed please advise, > I'm new to reporting bugs. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/567029/+subscriptions > ** Attachment added: "LMGTFYAcerAspire.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567029/+attachment/2584516/+files/LMGTFYAcerAspire.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567029 Title: Login failure loop with Ubuntu 10.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/567029/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
