xubuntu live cd problems on sony vaio PCG-SRX87

[S V N Vishwanathan]

Binary package hint: xubuntu-live

Booting from the 7.10 version of Xubuntu on my sony vaio PCG-SRX87 laptop failed because of the wrong screen resolution set by the intel driver. When booting up from live CD the initial bootsplash screen appears but after a while the screen goes blank. To fix it (and to enable DRI) I had to press CTRL + ALT + F1 to go to the command prompt and:

  sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri
  dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
  select intel driver
  select 16384 KB of video memory
  use kernel framebuffer
  resolution 1024 x 768
  16 bit depth
  then sudo killall Xorg from the command line
  check that dri was enabled in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log

This gave me a usable screen to work with. But, after the install the libgl1-mesa-dri package is removed. Weird! Therefore I had to reinstall it to get DRI to work. Please let me know what other information you need to debug the problem.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report. This looks like a xorg bug, setting it as the affected package.

[S V N Vishwanathan (vishketan)]

The DRI part of the bug is a duplicate of 156467. But the screen being blank and the display depth being set to 24 are not addressed by 156467.