I was able to get the 2011-07-20 build of 10.04.3 to boot, using roughly the same tricks that I used for another system described in bug#707755, on a Compaq system.
For the live-CD boot line, I hit F6 and selected 'nomode' set. For the rest of the command line, I removed 'quiet' and 'splash' and added 'text' and 'vga=771'. 'text' brings the system up in a shell, so I am able to add an xorg.conf file, and 'vga=771' gives me a text display which fits on the screen (the default goes off the bottom of the screen). Then I used scp to copy a basic xorg.conf file, specifying admissible screen modes, into /etc/X11. Having done that, I ran gdm to start the X display. It came up properly. I've attached xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log, and Xorg.0.log.old in a tar file. This bug was fixed in 11.04 and 11.10 releases - it should have been backported, as suggested in #166. ** Attachment added: "xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log, Xorg.0.old" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/495553/+attachment/2226573/+files/xorg.tar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 Title: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openchrome/+bug/495553/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs