RE: Screen going white after selecting boot option
I had a problem identical to this on an old machine I had with Ubuntu Dapper.
After selecting an option from the menu the screen went blank. It turns out
that the loading screen
was being displayed at a different refresh rate or something that m
Kevin wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 11:17 +, Neil Greenwood wrote:
>
>> I'd report this as a bug in Ubuntu 6.10. Include the hardware details
>> and see what happens.
>>
>
> I don't think it's an Ubuntu problem as I downloaded another distro and
> the same thing happened.
>
>
>> Hav
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 11:17 +, Neil Greenwood wrote:
> I'd report this as a bug in Ubuntu 6.10. Include the hardware details
> and see what happens.
I don't think it's an Ubuntu problem as I downloaded another distro and
the same thing happened.
> Have you tried the "safe graphics" option?
Y
On 06/01/07, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
> Well, I can get the live 5.10 running when I choose the vesa graphics
> option but when I try and use either ubuntu/kubuntu 6.10 it fails. I get
> as far as the options menu and then the screen goes white. The int
> graphics are VIA/S3G UniCh
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 19:46 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> What happens when you try to install on your laptop? What make/model
> is
> it? I don't know many graphics cards (integrated or not) that aren't
> supported in one way or another in Linux.
Well, I can get the live 5.10 running when I choose the
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 19:27 +, Kevin wrote:
> This is very helpful, thank you. The only reason I wondered about the
> integrated graphics was that I have a notebook with that and Linux won't
> install on it, everything else about the notebook is better than the
> desktop I have Ubuntu installe
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 18:34 +, norman wrote:
> If it is any help to you I have recently bought a new PC which was
> made to my specification and cost around £300 mark. Graphics and sound
> are on the motherboard and I have no trouble in running 06.10. If you
> want to use video cards then they
> I'm thinking about getting myself a new PC, it'll be very cheap which of
> course means integrated graphics which I believe is pretty much a no-no
> as far as Linux is concerned.
>
> How hard is it to disable this as I have a couple of video cards (albeit
> old ones) that I coul
Hi,
I'm thinking about getting myself a new PC, it'll be very cheap which of
course means integrated graphics which I believe is pretty much a no-no
as far as Linux is concerned.
How hard is it to disable this as I have a couple of video cards (albeit
old ones) that I could insta
