[nzlug] Ubuntu on an Acer Travelmate 230?

[Robin Sheat]

Has anyone managed to get Ubuntu running on an Acer Travelmate 230 laptop? I'm 
setting one up for someone, and having some odd issues with X. I initially 
got it working at 640x480, but when I tried to increase that by tweaking the 
xorg.conf settings, all I got was a black screen. Even resetting the settings 
back to what was there originally didn't seem to help, I can't even get that 
res to come up any more. Same when I do dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver. 
Console displays fine though. The installer detected it as needing the i810 
driver, and looking around the 'net, that seems to be correct. Neither 
restarting X nor rebooting helps.

Tomorrow when I try again, I'll get the lspci -vv information and see what 
that'll tell me, but I'd appreciate any pointers that anyone can give.

The configure doesn't detect the LCD screen, it always comes up as 'Generic 
Monitor'. I wonder if that's possibly related. How can I tell it that it's an 
LCD? (I have little experience with X configuration on anything other than 
desktop machines with standard monitors)

Thanks,
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