No X Display with IBM T30 laptop with ubuntu but works with redhat 9

[prasad at i2r.a-star.edu.sg]

Hi,

Tried this way ...but did not work. I saw some changes with blank X window screen, went bigger and normal (flip -flop) for few times and finally fall back to usual text window.

I was curious and installed RedHat 9 (which I had bought quite some time back) as another guest OS on top of VMware on the same laptop. The X window and entire installation  worked straight away without any tweakings. 

I am surprised why a new linux release like ubuntu which says a "desktop" distribution has so much problems to work on laptop whereas a two year old RedHat release installs so smoothly.  Ubuntu deveopment team should take down this point as more and more users nowadays have been using laptops.

P

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Beckett <thomas.beckett at gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, November 6, 2004 0:25 am
Subject: Re: No X Display with IBM T30 laptop

> It seems that vmware cant use udev yet which ubuntu (and most upcoming
> distros) use. until it is patched see the VMWare wiki for a quick fix
> 
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/VMware
> 
> Also - this might help - 
> http://www.omegatower.com/library/ubuntu-warty-on-vmware.htm
> 
> both found by a search of the ubuntu site
> 
> Hope it helps
> Tom
> 
> 
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 23:51:37 +0800, prasad at i2r.a-star.edu.sg
> <prasad at i2r.a-star.edu.sg> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just installed ubuntu distribution (i386) on top of Vmware 
> 4.5.2 on my IBM T30 laptop running Windows XP. After the linux 
> installation and reboot, X window never comes. Three or four times 
> screen flickers (goes on and off) probably trying to come up with 
> different resolutions and finally fails and leaves me with usual 
> text login prompt.
> > 
> > Is there any fix for this problem ?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Prasa
> > 
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