Just did following exercise on my "ancient" IBM Thinkpad 570 machine (see lshw/lspci -a attachments): Used livecd from 10th Mar (uname -a attached) In the boot menu removed quiet splash from the boot line
Assuming by default fbdev used got "distorted log in" screen (see picture attached) Used xforcevesa and during the boot got "Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30" message. After logged in from commandline, retrieved following (Xorg.0.log,xorg.conf) from the system after tried startx -- [K8M800] Xorg freeze / Kernel 2.6.32-10-generic freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508699 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
