Tony, I apologize that my skills in this area are nigh nil. I will forward this to a friend (nalioth) that is very helpful. you may find him in an ubuntu help chat. when he responds - i will send it to you and that will be more likely to help than my following postulations.
If you don't hear back soon enough - here is my two cents... What I would do, having looked at page 29 in the attached tech data - they point out in the book the setting is not configurable. is see if updating the VGA bios, if not System BIOS would be a good idea. I noticed also a multi-display setting/utility that probably never intended to stand behind an open-source OS, so an update probably won't help this issue. If I get down to updating BIOS - I just figure it is out of date and replace. As illustrated below - very little is accomplished in the time (over a year) taken to brute force investigate an annoyance if I can get around the issue and on with using my computer. my experience with this bug was that I was beat. After experimenting with BIOS settings one setting at a time and hoping I did not have to try changing two settings at a time (and back again), once I found the problem, I tried "just one more" setting that totally blanked the screen (zero VGA share memory size). I was so blindy furious I just built a new system. I had learned so much from what didn't work. I forgot something simple like removing the CMOS battery resets the BIOS. I opted instead for shoving it into another case for a little child genius that loved the experience and made a new system for 400USD in parts. Word to the wise - make sure that if your new motherboard has a separate CPU power header, that your power supply has that connector, or at least the adapter. Gosh darn those guys at Fry's. Now running ubuntu 11.10 64 bit. Then I remembered the CMOS battery remove and count to 10 (sage advice there) install new battery. I set everything back and upgraded to 11.04 and then 11.10 and everything worked with the maximum VGA memory share. Hopefully you can hold out til I get aholta nalioth. The Terry On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Tony Sherwood <[email protected]>wrote: > Is there another way around this bug? > > I have an Acer Aspire 4330 laptop with the same login loop problem, but > the BIOS doesn't allow me to set VGA share memory size. > > I have gotten around the issue so far by installing slim in place of > gdm, but I'd prefer to use gdm in the future if at all possible. Is > there a way to change gdm to recognize the VGA memory limit since > there's no BIOS setting for it? > > ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) > Status: Expired => Opinion > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567029 > > Title: > Login failure loop with Ubuntu 10.04 > > Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: > Opinion > > Bug description: > I installed both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu 10.04 Beta > 2. After install, where automatically login, or request password was > chosen the Ubuntu chimes sound and then the screen goes black. The > chimes repeat every second or two, with the screen remaining blank. > The system is completely non-responsive and the Num Lock, Caps Lock > and Scroll lock lights flash on and off repeatedly on the keyboard. I > am running Ubuntu on a Intel Core 2 Q6600, with 8Gb of RAM, A DFI > Lanparty motherboard, Two ATI Radeon 4850's installed as crossfire. As > is I cannot use 10.04 as both versions do this. I am reporting this > bug from Windows. If there is more information needed please advise, > I'm new to reporting bugs. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/567029/+subscriptions > ** Attachment added: "LMGTFYAcerAspire.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567029/+attachment/2584516/+files/LMGTFYAcerAspire.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567029 Title: Login failure loop with Ubuntu 10.04 Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: I installed both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2. After install, where automatically login, or request password was chosen the Ubuntu chimes sound and then the screen goes black. The chimes repeat every second or two, with the screen remaining blank. The system is completely non-responsive and the Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll lock lights flash on and off repeatedly on the keyboard. I am running Ubuntu on a Intel Core 2 Q6600, with 8Gb of RAM, A DFI Lanparty motherboard, Two ATI Radeon 4850's installed as crossfire. As is I cannot use 10.04 as both versions do this. I am reporting this bug from Windows. If there is more information needed please advise, I'm new to reporting bugs. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/567029/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
