[nzlug] Ubuntu on an Acer Travelmate 230?

[Vik Olliver]

Try it with the VESA driver. Not the world's fastest, but serviceable
while the problem gets properly resolved.

Vik :v)
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 01:02 +1200, Robin Sheat wrote:
> 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. 
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