On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 02:24:57 -0500 Erick Brunzell <lbsol...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> With Beta 1 testing approaching - maybe as soon as tomorrow - I wanted > to let everyone know that I'm still unable to test as much as usual > because of this bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1205643 > > I have made a few changes so I can run some additional test-cases on my > other test box, but my participation will be limited since half of my > test-suite is down :^( > > Lance Hi, The bug report you point to mentions several desktop environments where it does not work: ****** I also want to say that I'm fully aware that graphics chip is not supported by Ubuntu/compiz itself, or even GNOME's mutter window manager, but I think it should still work with the openbox, metacity, and Xfwm window managers ...... at least I hope so :^) ****** however, Graphics are not related to DE, or to window managers, but depend on the driver provided to work with Xorg. Your Chipset is a Chrome9 chipset, which is the/one of the cheapest (and bad) out there. The driver for it is unichrome: http://unichrome.sourceforge.net I had a motherboard setup with this chipset, I just added a nVidia pci-e GPU (a cheap one solved the display issues I was meeting at this time). >From your bug report again: ****** So onto what actually happens. When I try to boot either Lubuntu or Xubuntu Saucy Alpha 2, either the live image or an installed version, I just get a frozen progress bar. So it's just 5 frozen dots on the screen. If I try booting through the recovery mode or otherwise trying to "startx" or "'sudo service lightdm start' I just get a blank screen. I can see the backlight is working but that's all. ****** It seems according to your report that only the progress bar is a problem to you. And you can't start X from the recovery mode of course, it's an init mode which is too low for that. If it is only the progress bar which bothers you: the progress bar does not matter. You can hit a key before booting (it might be F6, look at the lower part of the screen to check) and replace "quiet splash" in the kernel command line with "noquiet" (leave the '--' at the end of the line) and you will have a text mode boot instead. Or just ignore what the progress bar looks like and go do something else by the time the system finishes the boot? Regards, Mélodie -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
