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xserver-xorg-video-savage package

  1. Bug #294899 (samsung-billy)
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 294899

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Peter Belew (peterbe) wrote : Re: [Bug 294899] Re: No signal with Samsung SyncMaster 750s and ProSavage8

I just tried again to boot the 9.04 'jaunty' CD - I was unable to get
a console with ctrl-alt-F1, trying several times before and after the
screen started displaying the little windows saying the current screen
mode. Apparently the driver is trying a number of modes, and doesn't
get feedback from the monitor that any mode does work.

Now this did come up with a useable mode in earlier versions of
Ubuntu. And also Windows XP does come up with a working mode - it
boots fine (this is a dual-boot system).

It would be really nice if the boot process would come up with a
manual selection of screen modes, including 800x600 and 1024x768
resolutions and maybe some other parameters, when mode selection fails
after a while.

I tried the Jaunty disk on an Averatec laptop (model 3280) that has
similar problems. After some time it came up with a menu which allowed
me to get into a shell in a small window - I didn't proceed further
since the existing OS was a recent Debian, not Ubuntu, so I didn't
have the right xorg.conf file to try.

Another approach would be to create a driver CD with the experimental
driver - apparently one can preinstall such a driver before actually
booting the OS CD. Also being able to configure xorg.conf manually
would be desirable.

Peter

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Tormod Volden <email address hidden> wrote:
> Is it not possible to switch to a console with ctrl-alt-F1?
>
> I was hoping you could get X running with the vesa driver, and then
> install the patched driver from the internet. If you have it already
> downloaded on the hard drive, that's even better, especially in the case
> vesa won't work. As long as you can log in on the console, that is.
>
> Then mount your hard drive with "sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" (replace
> sda1 with the name of the right partition) and install the driver with
> "sudo dpkg -i /mnt/home/peter/Desktop/xserver-xorg-video-savage*" or
> whatever is the right path to the deb package.
>
> --
> No signal with Samsung SyncMaster 750s and ProSavage8
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294899
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