It seems something there is something fundamentally wrong/broken. I have a Acer C100 TabletPC with SM720 lynx3dm silicon motion chipset. First I installed the final Ubuntu 8.10 where installation was running well until the reboot and where the gdm login should be there was just a blank screen. I gave xubuntu a try and installed Xubuntu 8.10 - same result everything fine until login screen (black but the system is normally running ctrl+alt+del brings the system down).
Interesting the file xorg.conf is empty after installation process (under Ubuntu and Xubuntu)!! The command dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg build a simple xorg.conf but did not recognise the driver. So I added to the Device section Driver "siliconmotion". I had to add fbcon and vga16fb to /etc/modules as well, otherwise the system remains black screened when trying to start with startx from root console. now the system tells me "fatal server error | Addscreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0" So far I'm not capable to enter the login screen somehow with 8.10. Before 8.10 there was Ubuntu 6.06 running smoothly ;-( -- Silicon Motion X driver fails to correctly restore text mode; requires modprobe vga16fb fbcon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144178 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
