910 KU live boot CD Graphics fail 6yo Compaq laptop. (jor)

[giovanni_re]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:30:06 -0500, "Clay Weber" <claydoh at midmaine.com> said:
> On Monday 25 January 2010 12:11:24 am giovanni_re wrote:
> > Thanks Clay :)  - still some problems, see below:
...
> > > I have a 6 year old Compaq Evo N610C, and found the issue with your
> > > graphics
> > > is a known bug in Karmic
> > > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-
> > > ati/+bug/426582
> > > This issue has been fixed in Lucid
> > >
> > > To temporarily get your plasma bits working on a live-cd session, you
> > > might try enabling desktop effects either via alt-shift-f12, or somehow
> > > open a window with a titlebar , right-click on it , go to 'configure
> > > window behavior" and enable desktop effects from there
> > 
> > Clay - you've got exactly the same computer: Compag Evo N610c.  IIRC this
> >  has 1GB RAM.
> > 
> > 1) Boot up, get the desktop background & blacked out bottom bar, right
> >  click where KStart button is, select "classic menu style", (now get grey
> >  garbage instead of black bottom bar), left click where KStart button
> >  should be, classic menu displays, select "settings > system settings", it
> >  comes up with garbage top bar, right click that, select "config window
> >  behavior", enable check box for "desktop effects", select OK, BUG: Get all
> >  black display with white pointer arrow & touchpad no longer works - can't
> >  move pointer or do anything - completely locked up, have to power off
> >  power on.
> > 
> > 2) alt-shift-f12 does nothing.  The only key combo with f12 that does
> >  anything is ctrl-alt-f12, which gives me a completely garbage screen, same
> >  as dong ctrl-alt-f1.  Then ctl-alt-f7 brings me back to the
> >  KDE-graphics-desktop display.
> > 
> > Clay or anyone - further suggestions??
> > 
> > Thanks :)
> > 
> As I mentioned, you have to somehow open a window with a (garbled, I know) 
> titlebar - try to right-click on your desktop and select 'desktop settings' or  
> similar, then right-click on the titlebar and select 'Window Behavior' to 
> bring up the plasma/desktop effects config and enable them from there. 
> 
> Then see my comment in the report for the xorg.cong file you need to create to 
> fix it better and permanently.
> 
> EXA is the default acceleration method these days, but on lower-memory gpu's 
> don't handle that so well,and performance can be poor (slow) using it. Using 
> the settings I found makes it work so much better. I do not recommend playing 
> with Desktop Activities, however, as this will seriously bog the 'ole laptop 
> down

Thanks again Clay :)

But, Ive done what you suggested to (that's what I said above).  I retried with _exactly_ the method you described right above, same bad result: black screen, white pointer, totally locked up (this is when boot from live KU 910 cd).

It's curious how we have the exact same laptop, & different behaior.  Not to say you've forgotten [ ;) ], but have you done that _exact_ procedure (which you just described) with a KU 910 live cd, on that laptop, recently?  Perhaps something is working differently now.

Any further suggestions you have will be appreciated. :)