<div dir="ltr">Hi Simon,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 September 2017 at 12:09, Simon Quigley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tsimonq2@lubuntu.me" target="_blank">tsimonq2@lubuntu.me</a>></span> wrote: <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">
</span>Was this present with 17.04 or any other 17.10 milestones?<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote">This is the first time I have experienced it.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I always test pre-release isos when asked on lubuntu-devel on this particular netbook (Samsung NC10, 'hawking') so it is probably safe to say this is a new problem.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The graphics PCI devices are:-<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])<br>Display controller : Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Here is what I believe might be going on:-</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">There is a graphics issue. I think the kernel parameters "splash quiet" somehow result in the graphics subsystem is somehow put into the wrong mode, resulting in the wrong piece of memory being used for part of the display, resulting in 80% of the screen being junk and 20% of the screen being perfect. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">It appears that booting from being switched off completely, with the kernel parameters "quiet splash" removed, prevents the problem from happening in the first place.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">BW,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ian</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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