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[John Maizels <jmaizels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm seeing pretty much the same behaviour as previously described.
Environment is a GA-PCV2 Idot motherboard with VIA PC-1000
Samuel2/VT8235M/CLE233.   None of the Ubuntu 8 or 9 versions which I
have run get as far as a working GUI, even for the installer.  I tested
also with a PCI video card, which didn't work any better;  I still got
unwanted hangs and screen-driving failures.   So.. I have to wonder if
it's related to the CLE233 itself, or if there are other things
happening around the chipset.

The text-based installers for 8.04 and 9.10 work to the extent of
building a quite bootable system - which then hangs.

Thanks to André's comment, I tried recovery mode,  which works!!!   What
a relief.   startx from the recovery prompt brings up a stable desktop
at 1024x768.   I didn't have to do anything to configure that, which is
an improvement from previous experiences with VIA chipsets.
Interestingly, there is no xorg.conf in /etc/X11, so I guess that
whatever I'm experiencing is a complete default. Screen painting is
sufficiently slow that I wonder if it's totally unaccelerated and
initialised in VESA mode, and that's why it's working.   However I don't
know how to prove that, and I'm happy to take suggestions.

I'm a complete newbie to *nix of any sort after 40 years of mainframes
and other PC environments, so assume that I could be missing something
simple through gross inexperience or incompetence!   :-)

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VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197514
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