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Tony,

I apologize that my skills in this area are nigh nil.  I will forward this
to a friend (nalioth) that is very helpful.  you may find him in an ubuntu
help chat.  when he responds - i will send it to you and that will be more
likely to help than my following postulations.

If you don't hear back soon enough - here is my two cents...
What I would do, having looked at page 29 in the attached tech data - they
point out in the book the setting is not configurable. is see if updating
the VGA bios, if not System BIOS would be a good idea.  I noticed also a
multi-display setting/utility that probably never intended to stand behind
an open-source OS, so an update probably won't help this issue.   If I get
down to updating BIOS - I just figure it is out of date and replace.  As
illustrated below - very little is accomplished in the time (over a year)
taken to brute force investigate an annoyance if I can get around the issue
and on with using my computer.

my experience with this bug was that I was beat.  After experimenting with
BIOS settings one setting at a time and hoping I did not have to try
changing two settings at a time (and back again), once I found the problem,
I tried "just one more" setting that totally blanked the screen (zero VGA
share memory size).  I was so blindy furious I just built a new system.  I
had learned so much from what didn't work.  I forgot something simple like
removing the CMOS battery resets the BIOS. I opted instead for shoving it
into another case for a little child genius that loved the experience and
made a new system for 400USD in parts.  Word to the wise - make sure that
if your new motherboard has a separate CPU power header, that your power
supply has that connector, or at least the adapter.  Gosh darn those guys
at Fry's.  Now running ubuntu 11.10 64 bit.

Then I remembered the CMOS battery remove and count to 10 (sage advice
there) install new battery.  I set everything back and upgraded to 11.04
and then 11.10 and everything worked with the maximum VGA memory share.

Hopefully you can hold out til I get aholta nalioth.

The Terry

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Tony Sherwood
<567029@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Is there another way around this bug?
>
> I have an Acer Aspire 4330 laptop with the same login loop problem, but
> the BIOS doesn't allow me to set VGA share memory size.
>
> I have gotten around the issue so far by installing slim in place of
> gdm, but I'd prefer to use gdm in the future if at all possible.  Is
> there a way to change gdm to recognize the VGA memory limit since
> there's no BIOS setting for it?
>
> ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
>       Status: Expired => Opinion
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> Title:
>  Login failure loop with Ubuntu 10.04
>
> Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
>  Opinion
>
> Bug description:
>  I installed both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu 10.04 Beta
>  2. After install, where automatically login, or request password was
>  chosen the Ubuntu chimes sound and then the screen goes black. The
>  chimes repeat every second or two, with the screen remaining blank.
>  The system is completely non-responsive and the Num Lock, Caps Lock
>  and Scroll lock lights flash on and off repeatedly on the keyboard. I
>  am running Ubuntu on a Intel Core 2 Q6600, with 8Gb of RAM, A DFI
>  Lanparty motherboard, Two ATI Radeon 4850's installed as crossfire. As
>  is I cannot use 10.04 as both versions do this. I am reporting this
>  bug from Windows. If there is more information needed please advise,
>  I'm new to reporting bugs.
>
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** Attachment added: "LMGTFYAcerAspire.pdf"
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Title:
  Login failure loop with Ubuntu 10.04

Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  I installed both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu 10.04 Beta
  2. After install, where automatically login, or request password was
  chosen the Ubuntu chimes sound and then the screen goes black. The
  chimes repeat every second or two, with the screen remaining blank.
  The system is completely non-responsive and the Num Lock, Caps Lock
  and Scroll lock lights flash on and off repeatedly on the keyboard. I
  am running Ubuntu on a Intel Core 2 Q6600, with 8Gb of RAM, A DFI
  Lanparty motherboard, Two ATI Radeon 4850's installed as crossfire. As
  is I cannot use 10.04 as both versions do this. I am reporting this
  bug from Windows. If there is more information needed please advise,
  I'm new to reporting bugs.

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