Comment 8 for bug 186103

The behavior when trying to boot intrepid on this Averatec laptop is quite similar to the behavior described in bug #294899 and 212510 when trying to boot on a gBox computer with a ProSavage8 display controller and Samsung SyncMaster 570S display, except that the laptop's display does not have the facility to display a message when the wrong type of signal is fed to it from the display controller. Instead, the system just appears to hang, after possibly trying various screen modes - that's hard to tell.

Here is an excerpt from the xorg.conf generated by Debian 4.0 on this system:

 Section "Device"
        Identifier "VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter"
        Driver "via"
        BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Generic Monitor"
        Option "DPMS"
        HorizSync 28-51
        VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Device "VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter"
        Monitor "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 1
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 4
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 8
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 15
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 16
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 24
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier "Default Layout"
        Screen "Default Screen"
        InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

It's not clear what driver the intrepid 8.10 live CD is trying to load. It's possible it's trying a different driver than the one 7.04 was using.