GG 7.10 refuses to boot on Asus M2N-X Plus mobo

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 10:17, joris abadie wrote:
> My     mother card is : Asus P5GZ-MX,
> when start the PC
> click on del
> when the bios is open you go in "main"---->"Ide master"----->"DMAmode"
> and your choise must be "SWDMA0" in place "auto"
> The noise RAM was "AE" 1GB  DDR2 533

Hi Joris. Changing the DMA mode to SWDMA0 makes no difference.

Reading the text on bootup, it's hanging just after starting KDM, so it looks 
like it's unable to start X. The graphics card has an ATI chip on it, the 
other distros I've installed on this machine are using the vesa driver, as 
there seem to be problems with the ATI one.

Well I've experimented a bit more. Changed the VGA setting to 640x480, and 
added acpi=off to the boot line.

Press enter, and check the monitor menu, which says 640x480. Eventually X 
starts, and I get a blue screen with a mouse pointer that I can move, but 
everything is very small (highest resolution), and the monitor menu now shows 
the highest resolution, which appears to way beyond what my monitor can 
handle. I normally use 1024x768. The blue screen doesn't stay for long, and 
it appears that X gives up trying.

Any suggestion on what I could add to the boot line, to force 1024x768 to be 
used?

btw, I am downloading the Kubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso, as someone else 
suggested, but as usual, it takes ages on dialup (50% done).

Nigel.