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[Peter Belew <abcruzww@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Beta-2 live cd will not boot properly.

First of all, the screen resolution is STILL set wrong initially, so the
screen is cropped to the upper-left 1024x768 corner of a larger
(1600x1200?) screen. I was able to get around this by changing the
screen resolution after logging in.

Also, I still can't ctl-alt-F3 into a console, as described above.

The new problem is that I can't log in to Gnome - actually, what
apparently happens is that the X server crashes immediately after
logging in, so the screen goes blank, then a second or two later the
splash screen reappears, with a login box. Logging in as 'ubuntu' with a
blank password repeats this.

Not being able to use console screens, and not have a telnet or ssh
server installed by default, makes this problem impossible to diagnose.
It would be really useful to be able to log in over the LAN to diagnose
such problems, as one can do optionally with FreeBSD.

** Summary changed:

- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver
+ [K8M800] Beta-2 boot failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: xorg-server
+ 
+ It is now impossible to boot on this system from the beta-2 live CD -
+ see comment #111.
  
  THIS NOW SEEMS TO BE 'CURED' by running kernels from Karmic - see
  comments past #100.
+ 
+ A Framebuffer driver seems to be involved - see comment #109.
  
  I installed Lucid on the Averatec 3280 laptop from the Alternate CD on
  10 December 2009. I then updated the system with apt-get several times.
  On booting this morning, the logical screen origin was shifted to the
  center of the screen. With some difficulty, I was able to log in, and to
  try to find a solution.
  
  After the original installation, my login screen was too large, so that
  the login window was of center. It looks like some bugs have been
  reported about that issue, such as #231555 and @214704; I haven't looked
  at the details. I have had similar problems with earlier releases on
  this laptop. However, once logged in, the screen resolution was correct
  (1024x768 on this laptop's panel). Adding an xorg.conf file seemed to
  cure the login screen size problem.
  
  The split-screen problem only appeared this morning, after an update the
  previous evening.
  
  I will attach a photo of the screen and any further details a bit later
  - it's a bit difficult to edit this report with the screen split with
  the browser's left and right margins in the middle of the screen.
  
  Also, I now get a blank screen when trying to ctrl-alt-F3 etc to a tty
  console - this did not happen with the original installation of Lucid,
  yesterday.
  
  This problem makes the system virtually unusable!
  
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu lucid (development branch)"
  Linux EROS 2.6.32-7-generic #10-Ubuntu SMP Sun Dec 6 13:43:20 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
  model name	: Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 28
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Dec 11 08:43:04 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
  Package: gdm 2.29.1-0ubuntu4
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-7.10-generic
  SourcePackage: gdm
  Tags: lucid
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-7-generic i686

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[K8M800] Beta-2 boot failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver
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