Boot of Desktop 6.10 (Edgy Eft) installer hangs on i845

[Alexis Wilke]

This is mainly informational. I have my own work around.

Whenever I tried to boot your graphical based installer, it failed. So I used the Server version. Much better anyway (for me 8-).

Once I had a working system, I installed X and I had the problem. Total hang whenever I was starting X.

The log looked okay. Nothing reported. Just saying that it is starting as expected.

The only solution to fix the problem has been to always run 915resolution (from the package of the same name.)

What I will suggest is: if you detect an i845 or similar board, ask the user if he/she wants to run 915resolution before to switch to X11. (i.e. first time try without it and then re-try with it and it may just magically work!)

I now run 915resolution in my boot process. Once I have a login prompt, I can start X and it never fails.

Hope this helps other people...

Alexis Wilke

[Chris Rose (chris-vault5)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information.

Please include the information requested from [WWW] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingXAutoconfiguration as separate attachments.

[Chris Rose (chris-vault5)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 63560. You can follow updates to this issue here:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/63560

[Alexis Wilke (alexis-m2osw)]

I checked the Debugging X Auto-configuration page and I have a KVM. So that's possibly what the problem is thought still, with 915resolution, it works... And my monitor is a rather good one which works with really high frequencies in 1280x1024.

Anyway, I will mention that on bug 63560.