I raised a bug which I think is a duplicate of this bug. Mine is #993405 and is now marked as a duplicate of this bug. In my machine (details at my bug entry) the display got impossible and I was considering a reinstall, but I then remembered I had used nomodeset successfully on other old machines.
I used nomodeset and it worked! :-) This is in a machine in which the 12.04 desktop 32 bit live cd worked fine! even apparently using 3D also. However, after install, I think 3D was no longer available, and although the default high resolution of the display worked ok, the user wanted a lower res (!) and it was after choosing lower res that the display really screwed up, and there was no going back (doh!) At least I could not find a way. But use of nomodeset in the boot string (grub menu visible, press e, and add nomodeset in appropriate place) and then making the change permanent /etc/default/grub (add nomodeset appropriately, and then update-grub) all worked. So although for me this bug was a complete show stopper, the nomodeset workaround means I now have no more problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/949130 Title: Display corrupts and flashes when changing resolution on GMA X3000 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/949130/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
