Acer Apspire One 753 and Kubuntu

[FarSight Data Systems]

On Wednesday 27 October 2010 03:56:25 pm Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2010/10/24 Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I just bought an Acer Aspire One 753 and wanted to install Kubuntu 10.10
> > on it. I created a bootable USB-stick with Kubuntu 10.10 according to
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick.
> > It booted fine and i could run the LiveCD, i resized the existing
> > Windows 7 partition and installed Kubuntu.
> > Everything went smooth during the installation but when I rebooted
> > into Kubuntu it wouldn't start X. I think it trying to start a
> > failsafe X with VESA but fails with error in the log.
> >
> > The last lines from Xorg.0.log is:
> > (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
> > (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
> > ...
> > (EE) open /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > I tried to create a default xorg.conf (based on the
> > xorg.conf.failsafe) and replaced the vesa driver with intel but then I
> > didn't get any error but it wouldn't start.
> > Has anyone installed Kubuntu on an Acer Aspire One 753 or have any
> > ideas what to do/try?
> > If needed I post more hardware info later.
> >
> > / Jonas
>
> I was hoping that there was any other on this list had the same
> machine or similar hardware.
>
> It has an Intel Celeron U3400 CPU with integrated Graphics (Intel HD
> Graphics). Arrandale it's called I think.
> What I can see from searching the net, Arrandale should be supported
> with the Kernel, Xorg and Intel versions in 10.10.
> Booting from the LiveCD and checking the Xorg.0.log shows it is using
> the intel driver.
> So what makes it work from the LiveCD and not when installed?
>
> / Jonas


Have you tried copying the relevant configuration files from the LiveCD to the 
system?  I've done that with Knoppix to help with some xorg configurations.

Mark

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