[SOLVED] Re: Acer Apspire One 753 and Kubuntu

[Jonas Norlander]

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 finally got a workaorund until it can be solved upstreams.
It turns out to be a bug/crash in the kernel that prevents X from
starting. Blacklisting intel_ips makes X start.
Bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/648631

/ Jonas