Public bug reported: Hi there,
as per instructions on IRC > freenode > ubuntu-bugs I am refiling this. I have confirmed this problem on two different systems. They are both Acer Aspire laptops.: Acer Aspire 5050 Acer Aspire 9410 The bug occurs only one time. After that it stays permanent on the affected partition. The problem occurs when starting openoffice.org the first time, indicating a faulty permission problem. When reinstalling over the previous partition, without reformatting, the problems persists. When reformatting it disappears. When using an old file, it is there again. The problem also goes over into other partitions, indicating the BIOS was changed. I can rescue my Microsoft system by reinstalling the VGA driver. The symptom here is that the right keypad will no longer work. Not with numlock on nor off. I noticed something very similar on the live cd's of hardy heron and intrepid. The safe graphics option on F4 was no longer there, on the exact same machine. Somehow the entry for the VGA driver is triggered, as this driver is programmed to alter the BIOS, which is extremely stupid. Drivers + BIOS: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_9410.html Try: vga_intel_6.14.10.4497 BIOS v1.24 I know already the BIOS is crap, as I had a memory issue before. I have two identical sockets and two identical memory chips (2x2 GB). Individually they work in any combination and my laptop works fine. When installed together memtest will display errors and the BIOS recognises only 3 GB in RAM. This was probably done because Vista 32-bit (did) support(s) only 3 GB. Ridiculous! Similtaneously with the bug on this partition (I think), my jaunty partition failed to boot. I had not entered it for a week. It gives me the following error: {![triangle]} Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode The following error was encountered. You may need to update your configuration to solve this. (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpart (No such file or directory) (EE) (EE) intel (0): [dri] DRIScreeninit failed. Disabling DRI (EE) intel (0): Failed to allocate framebuffer. Is your Video RAM set too low? (EE) intel (0): Failed to allocate framebuffer. Is your Video RAM set too low? (EE) intel (0): Couldn't allocate video memory I reflashed my BIOS twice from Microsoft with the latest version and all other drivers are installed. It is just that the Phoenix trusted core BIOS is crap. I doubt there is anythinh Ubuntu can do, other than confirm the problem. ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- xorg + VGA driver + BIOS incompatibility ; Symtom: right keypad does no longer work. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/323694 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
