[P4M900] won't boot into X from 10.04.1 medium without xforcevesa

[David Nielsen]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

I was trying out Lucid on my fiancees machine (a Semp Toshiba Info IS 1462) but found that I could only get X to start using the xforcevesa boot option. Leading to a very poor first impression of Ubuntu since the user is greeted with a black screen and a basically nonfunctional machine.

Additionally, but likely separately, the bootsplash is aligned wrongly entirely on the left of the screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome 1:0.2.904+svn827-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 30 18:37:14 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
GdmLog1: Error: command ['gksu', '-D', 'Apport', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory
GdmLog2: Error: command ['gksu', '-D', 'Apport', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
MachineType: Semp Toshiba IS-1462
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash xforcevesa --
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
dmi.bios.date: 03/18/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Semp Toshiba
dmi.bios.version: B.0B-2310-000A
dmi.board.name: IS-1462
dmi.board.vendor: Semp Toshiba
dmi.board.version: 0.1
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: FIC
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnSempToshiba:bvrB.0B-2310-000A:bd03/18/2008:svnSempToshiba:pnIS-1462:pvr01:rvnSempToshiba:rnIS-1462:rvr0.1:cvnFIC:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: IS-1462
dmi.product.version: 01
dmi.sys.vendor: Semp Toshiba
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-24-generic

[Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65)]

Hi David.

Attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file when you run Openchrome driver.
If you can from after reproducing this issue (or /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old after reboot).

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.