TWO RESTARTS TO MOUNT REMOVABLE DRIVES
Maurice Murphy
m1625 at rogers.com
Thu Feb 15 16:54:08 UTC 2007
Hi Peter,
My adventures were not too successful, I'm afraid. I tried copying a
modified xorg.conf file from my live CD. I found I could not copy it to
a removable drive, even as sudo. So that experiment was a no go.
I tried modifying my existing xorg.conf by amending the HorizSynch and
VertRefresh numbers to those suggested in bug#3731, (My current values
are: HorizSynch 28-204, VertRefresh 43-60. This gives me 8 different
screen resolution options!)
When I restarted after this modification, my screen bombed with its
usual blue floating no screen driver message. So I did an emergency
restart and copied my original xorg.conf back again. Fortunately,
everything then worked OK.
So I think I'm going to stay a chicken, there would be just too much
backup and post install modification work to making a single boot Ubuntu
and even then, I would have no guarantee that the screen resolution
problem would be resolved. Besides, my dual boot works just fine in
every respect and I really don't need to go and look at Windows XP
except in dire emergency or when Windows needs its frequent security
updates!
I still have the "two restarts to mount removable drives quirk." Any
ideas anyone?
Thanks,
Maurice
Peter Whittaker wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:17 -0500, Maurice Murphy wrote:
>
>> On another topic, I have found a Work Around for my screen resolution
>> problem encountered when booting from the 6.10 Live CD. It was listed
>> under Bug #59349.
>> ...snip...
>> This worked for me the next time I restarted from my live CD and it did
>> not overwrite my regular xorg.conf :-)
>>
>
> "Maurice, would you be willing to try an experiment (backup all valuable
> data first...!)?", he asked gingerly....
>
> Boot from the LiveCD, apply the workaround, and re-install Ubuntu.
>
> When you reboot, is the resolution correct?
>
> Another test to try is this:
>
> Boot from the LiveCD, use the function keys (F4?) to set the resolution,
> then re-install? When you reboot, is the resolution correct?
>
> These would both be good data points. If you perform the tests and the
> resolutions are correct, please add the data to bug #3731 (59349 has
> been marked dupe of 3731, so 3731 appears to be the one being tracked).
>
> Thanks!
>
> pww
>
>
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