How can I get X to work on older, wierd netbooks

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 12:10 -0700, Lou Katz wrote:
> I have an older Kohjinsha netbook with an AMD Geode processor that reports
> Geode LX Video. The 10.04 Xubuntu CD shows up just fine with the Xubuntu logo
> and while booting, shows the mouse-in-the-moon graphics logo. Once booted,
> I have a blank screen. X is running and I can get to the command line screens
> (Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2, etc). I would be happy for now if I could just coax X to
> use whatever graphics mode was used during booting. Any hints or pointers???
> -- 

Try using vesa in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Ric
 


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