Aha, I figured out how to reproduce it on my desktop: Boot with the alternate CD, go through the installation until it has reformatted the drive and started installing things to /target. Next `chroot /target`, then wait until the file /usr/share/xresprobe/xprobe.sh is present, and then invoke it:
/usr/share/xresprobe/xprobe.sh laptop Boom, colored squares. Essentially what this script is doing, is running /usr/bin/Xorg :67 -ac -probeonly -logfile "<logfile>" -config "<config>" using the xorg.conf from /usr/share/xresprobe/xorg.conf, with "intel" specified as the driver. So... one solution could be to disable running xprobe.sh for driver "intel". I've attached a patch for this. However, I think this risks ending up with an improperly configured graphics system. Let me experiment more and see if I can come up with a better solution. ** Attachment added: "Brute force patch to stop corruption on Intel laptops" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9519070/xresprobe.patch -- Alternate install of Tribe-4 corrupts video display when installing packages (affected hardware includes Santa Rosa) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127008 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
