[nzlug] Ubuntu on an Acer Travelmate 230?

[Robin Sheat]

On Friday 04 August 2006 01:02, 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.
OK, got it going. So I'll post here for the benefit of anyone else. The fix is 
to go into the BIOS and change the video memory settings. The video chipset 
doesn't have _any_ memory of it's own, and so you need to steal it from 
system memory. The default setting (I think it calls it UMA or similar) is 
1Mb, which isn't enough. I think the windows drivers override it, but the 
Linux ones don't (although a changelog said that it should from about 2003). 
So in the BIOS you can up it to 8Mb. Then, all of a sudden, everything worked 
at 1024x768, which was much better.

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