[nzlug] Ubuntu on an Acer Travelmate 230?

[Nevyn]

On 8/4/06, Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> wrote:
> 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.

Probably worth adding this to the wiki at http://wiki.linux.net.nz/ if
it's to be kept for future reference.