On 09/02/2013 02:56 AM, JM wrote: > 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 > You're largely missing my point. The team has depended on me for quite some time when it comes to iso-testing. I typically used that box with the VIA P4M800 chipset to test the i386 images. that won't be possible due to that bug.
And, while that chipset slightly sucks, it has been supported since Gutsy .............. it still runs great in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS so I needn't worry about support for another three years, but the real point is that the Saucy X-stack breaks it's usage even with low resource window managers. Lance PS: I maintain 23 boxes with that chip so upgrading all 23 is NOT an option, unless I win the lottery. -- 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
