Intrepid amd64 Live CD beta testing

Bryce Harrington bryce at canonical.com
Fri Oct 3 17:42:55 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 08:47:40AM -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:41:34PM +0200, Lo?c Martin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > While previous Intrepid amd64 Live CD works perfectly, the Beta one 
> > released yesterday doesn't manage to configure properly X on my computer 
> > (Nvidia 7900GS 256Mo PCIe, Iiyama Prolite B2403WS through VGA port). The 
> > screen has vertical colored bars (green/gray/yellow) and going to the 
> > console, killing gdm, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg blocks at the end 
> > (starting X from another console doesn't work :
> > No screens found.
> > 
> > I'd like top report in Launchpad, but I'm not sure what I should report 
> > it against. Also, is there any special tags (except of course 
> > regression-potential) for the Beta?
> 
> Bug reports regarding X can generally be filed against the 'xorg'
> package, and if necessary they will be moved to the correct package by
> the Ubuntu X team.  Additionally, you'll want to include your
> '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file and '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' from the Live CD.
> You can find out more about debugging X at
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging.

>From the description of the problem, I would first guess the video
driver is at fault.  But Brian's right - file against xorg and we'll
move it where it needs to go.

Btw, you can also report X bugs more easily now by running this command:

  ubuntu-bug xorg

This will automatically gather all the necessary troubleshooting files,
launch your web browser, and open the bug in launchpad.

Bryce





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