smp conversion

[Sebastian M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=sch]

Hi,

Once upon a time Eric S. Johansson wrote:

> I installed ubuntu on my wife's smp machine but it looks like it didn't
> install an smp kernal.  I installed the latest smp kernal via synaptic,
> and all appears well until I try to log in.  login appears to proceed
> normally untill the gnome desktop starts to display.  it gets as far as
> the dark brown background and the white bars on top and bottom of the
> screen then the system seems to lock up (can't get to virt consoles)
> 
> ideas?

Most accelerated video-drivers (nvidia, ati) are imho not working with
smp-kernels or need different settings ...

First, try running X in vesa mode.

To reconfigure X, start the system in Single-User mode (the second option in
grub) ... Log in and run the command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg",
don't use automatic detection and select vesa as server. Afterwards run
"sudo init 3", to get into the normal runlevel. X and gdm should start now.

If the system is working now, you may reconfigure X to use an accelerated
driver with the normal steps, and see if it was only a configuration
problem. If not stay with the unaccelerated drivers.

Cu
Sebastian

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