<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Cris<div><br></div><div>This is what I fond when I had with a Dell MINI 10.</div><div>In a Terminal run lspci and see what you have, worked for me.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="smallfont" style="margin-top: 2px; "><strong>Re: sudo restart lightdm is it to be fixed?</strong></div><hr size="1" style="color: rgb(247, 246, 245); background-color: rgb(247, 246, 245); "><div class="vbclean_msgtext" id="post_message_12284014">I don't know what "Dell Inspiron mini 10 sudo" is, but if you have a Dell Inspiron mini 10 netbook, especially if it is a Poulsbo based GMA500 netbook, then the problem is known, and there is an easy workaround.<br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupp...eoCardsPoulsbo</a><br><br>To verify the netbook chipset, run <b>lspci</b> in a terminal window. A Poulsbo based netbook should show something like this:<br><div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px; "><div class="smallfont" style="margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; ">Quote:</div><table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="ubuntu_quotebackground" style="background-color: rgb(236, 233, 231); border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(174, 167, 159); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">~$ lspci<br>00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) (rev 07)<br>00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07)<br>00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) HD Audio Controller (rev 07)<br>00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 07)<br>00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 07)<br>00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB UHCI #1 (rev 07)<br>00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB UHCI #2 (rev 07)<br>00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB UHCI #3 (rev 07)<br>00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB EHCI #1 (rev 07)<br>00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) LPC Bridge (rev 07)<br>00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) IDE Controller (rev 07)</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="smallfont" style="margin-top: 2px; "><hr size="1" style="font-family: Ubuntu, Ubuntu, 'Ubuntu Beta', UbuntuBeta, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(247, 246, 245); background-color: rgb(247, 246, 245); "><br><em style="font-family: Ubuntu, Ubuntu, 'Ubuntu Beta', UbuntuBeta, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 246, 245); "></em></div></div><div><div><div>On Oct 11, 2012, at 6:31 AM, Chris Green <<a href="mailto:cl@isbd.net">cl@isbd.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:56:01AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:<br>[snip my tale of woe]<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Aha! It's back to the original problem (which I thought nomodeset had<br>cured), when I hit CTRL-ALT-F7 to go back to the GUI I get half a screen<br>of GUI with a totally broken mouse interface to it. <br><br></blockquote>Typical, just after posting this I turned up the answer with a Google<br>search (I had tried before but obviously I got better search terms this<br>time). <br><br>The answer is to restart lightdm after the system has booted and it's<br>showing the broken display. Just go to a console login and do:-<br><br> sudo lightdm restart<br><br>and everything is perfect. <br><br>Is there any way I can fix this so I don't have to restart lightdm, i.e.<br>is there something I can do in the ligthdm.conf file to fix it?<br><br>-- <br>Chris Green<br><br>-- <br>Lubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>