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Ubuntu video failure on LiveCD boot/install - 6.06LTS, 6.10 and Feisty Fawn

Bug #94330 reported by K7AAY
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Bug Description

Ubuntu video failure on LiveCD boot/install - 6.06LTS, 6.10 and Feisty Fawn

Dell Inspiron 8100, ATI RAGE MOBILITY video card.

Knoppix 5 can recognize the video OK, but no recent Ubuntu (6.06LTS, 6.10 and current Feisty Fawn) can. Did confirm (MD5 checksum and self-test) the CD images were downloaded properly. Have installed Ubuntu on about 30 boxen previously, plus about three w/ Kubuntu and five w/ Xbuntu; first video failure with any *buntu.

Video 's OK until about 1/3 of the way across the screen, where the rest of the screen is covered by another rendition of the first part of the screen. The right end of the screen is repeated twice, as well. Can't read the dialog boxes to do an install.

Booting with vga=771 does not work, either. Neither does VGA 'safe' mode.

How can I get Ubuntu to recognize the video hardware so I may successfully install?

Thank you in advance.
73s and best regards,
K7AAY

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K7AAY (john-bartley)
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description: updated
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K7AAY (john-bartley) wrote :

Resolved by looking at what video card Knoppix deteced, copying the xorg file onto a USB memory drive, rebooting Ubuntu, dropping into text mode, and adding in to the virtual filesystem the xorg file. Fawn now finds the right driver, and all's well.

description: updated
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

would you care attaching the working and non-working xorg.conf?

Changed in xorg:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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K7AAY (john-bartley) wrote : Re: [Bug 94330] Re: Ubuntu video failure on LiveCD boot/install - 6.06LTS, 6.10 and Feisty Fawn

The non-working xorg.conf can be found on the LiveCD for 6.06LTS, 6.10 and
Feisty-5.
Here's the working xorg.conf

73s and best regards,
K7AAY de PDX OR USA

On 3/29/07, Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> would you care attaching the working and non-working xorg.conf?
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> Ubuntu video failure on LiveCD boot/install - 6.06LTS, 6.10 and Feisty
> Fawn
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/94330
>

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John Bartley K7AAY PDX OR USA 503-BAR-TLEY pgr 503.993.2008
"The state which separates its scholars from its warriors will have its
thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." - Thucydides.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Err, no. The livecd always probes your hardware and generates it on the fly.

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K7AAY (john-bartley) wrote :

Three different LiveCDs, different versions, same result. I''ve wiped the
old one.

On 3/29/07, Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Err, no. The livecd always probes your hardware and generates it on the
> fly.
>
> --
> Ubuntu video failure on LiveCD boot/install - 6.06LTS, 6.10 and Feisty
> Fawn
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/94330
>

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John Bartley K7AAY PDX OR USA 503-BAR-TLEY pgr 503.993.2008
"The state which separates its scholars from its warriors will have its
thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." - Thucydides.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

You don't understand... Please run the livecd-session, and then take the generated /etc/X11/xorg.conf and attach it to this bug. Mail attachments are lost, btw. I can't see your working xorg.conf anywhere.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Closing as out of date, due to no response from reporter. If the issue still exists, please reopen with the requested information.

Changed in xorg:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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