Hey Bryce, I decided to upgrade my browsing machine to Ubuntu 8.10 mostly for the capability to recognize Pci wifi adapters (I'd done this on previous versions with ndis wrappers but liked the simplicity of the 8.10 solution) This particular unit has a biostar K8m800 motherboard and an AMD athlon x2 4850e cpu with 1 gig of ram. The Install of 8.10 was downloaded a few days after it first went "live" on the website about November 3 2008. This image did install to the system but on the initial reboot the system was very slow in booting up about 5 minutes to the sign in screen, another 5 minutes until the Ibex screen appeared. But no navigation bars ever appeared and then the screen went to a constant blur of the ibex colors. I left the system for about a half hour it never resolved to a usable navigation screen. I tried this 3 times and then reinstalled 8.04 lts. Interestingly after the install of 8.04 from cd and then letting the system update from the site it did recognize the PCI wifi card ( a linksys 802.11 g card). But the system had a problem with screen resolution, it was very large using the screen resolution tool I switched from 800x600 to 1240x960 and the system still wasn't right (this is a very old 15" viewsonic lcd). I swapped the Viewsonic for a 19" widescreen Hanns-g monitor and still experienced the same issues. I think I'll have to install the system on another computer and transfer the hard drive to the k8 sytem.
It seems to me that the x-org probe of the motherboard doesn't read it correctly. The prior install of 8.04 was perfect in screen resolution, however I'm not sure how I installed it. I may have used a minimal install disk or I may have installed it on the hard hard drive while it was in a different system and then transfered the hard drive to the k8 system. I do know that installs to flash drives and SD cards of both 8.04 and 8.10 boot the systems up with perfect screen resolution (as long as they weren't installed through the k8 motherboard. I think this is a shame as I am a firm believer in the linux/ubuntu philosophy. The k8 mobo is a nice mobo for a cheap build. I think many builders in the US are good apostles for linux/ubuntu. But, with the issue of poor screen resolution, and the inability to resolve it simply, will continue to hinder the penetration of linux/ubuntu into the market place. I hope you will be able to find the bug and fix it. The only other suggestion I have, is when doing a mod probe (I think) to fix screen resolution, or any other config issue, for that matter the probe goes to far to fix one problem. For thos of us who don't delve into the terminal all that often going through the probe questions is intimidating. If I want to change the resolution of my screen I don't want to have to answer questions about my keyboard sound card and all the rest (it's been awhile since I had to do this). The way I look at it is that I might get my screen resolution correct but the chances are that I'll screw something else up along the way, so I stay away from the re-probe function. Drop me a line if you need more details or I can help in any way On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:18 AM, g yent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Bryce, > Thanks for looking at this bug. I've had better luck with the released > version, Ibex 8.10. Although I did try it on older machine with an Athlon K7 > cpu in a foxconn mobo, the released version did not install. I did a work > around by downloading and using a minimal install disk. I have booted the > systems below after loading the new ubuntu 8.10 onto a 4 gig Kingston > traveler thumb drive. But I've not yet tried to upgrade or direct install > onto the systems listed below since the 8.10 version has come out of beta. > > The problem with your request is that in the instances below I had no log > files or anything else, they were new hardware builds. One of the units is > now a windows XP TV PVR ( and will stay that way until I find a good > recording software that works with my card, I haven't found a scheduler that > runs under ubuntu). The other is just a browsing, movie playing machine > using Ubuntu 8.04 which has worked well since it's release. I can give you > the log files from that machine. I was planning on upgrading to 8.10 on the > browsing machine because I like the support for wireless cards. Although I > have still found that even the 8.10 version still doesn't like usb wireless > adapters. > > I'll give this a try with the released version and give you an email back. > > Thanks > Rick > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Bryce Harrington < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [This is an automated message] >> >> Hi gdylynx, >> >> >> Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your >> /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made >> any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well. >> >> >> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) >> Status: New => Incomplete >> >> -- >> Ubuntu 8.10 beta doesn't boot or install >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281515 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> >> Status in "xorg" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete >> >> Bug description: >> I tried install on two different Biostar K8M800 mobo's. Southbridge is >> VT8237R+. I tried the install disk with different HD's, monitors and >> downloads of the install disk. I tried each of three cpu's, Sempron le-1100, >> Athlon le-1600, and Athlon X2 4850e. The install and or boot goes through >> the process and hangs on what looks to be the final screen. The screen seems >> to be a bunch of vertical lines in the colors of the ubuntu screen, medium >> brown, light brown and the orange cream color. None of the different set ups >> will continue past this screen. I've yet to get an install or boot from the >> disks. Sorry I couldn't use the automatic reporting system but I couldn't >> get far enough. Ubuntu 8.04 lts loads boots and installs to these systems >> both from downloaded burned iso's and alternate install disks. >> >> Also on this reporting page the search function for package doesn't seem >> to find Ubuntu 8.10, 8.10 or any close form so I chose I don't know to get >> the info through. >> thanks >> Rick >> > > -- Ubuntu 8.10 beta doesn't boot or install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281515 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
