Xubuntu video display completely screwed

[Irving Leonard]

On Miércoles 29 Abril 2009 10:20:54 AM Dave M G escribió:
> Nils,
>
> Thank you for responding.
>
> I needed to use my laptop, so I reverted it to 8.10, which has no
> display problems.
>
> The display does not work even when using the Jaunty live CD, so it is
> something inherent in how Jaunty uses the display drivers.
>
> But I will have to just wait and hope future bug fixes will take care of
> it before attempting an upgrade.
>
> Thanks for having tried to help.
>
> --
> Dave M G
You can try with "safe-mode", it is a generic (VESA) driver that works 
with almost every video chip for PC (it is a BIOS standard or something 
like that). Althought, you can't use video acceleration (openGL, desktop 
effects, heavy games) with it. To use it, in the Jaunty live CD, the try-
install-check cd menu, do: F4 -> safe-mode, and whatever (try, install, 
check).
It works for me with a via chipset that is poorly supported.
regards
irving

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