Hello fellow Ubuntuors,
I have a pickle with one laptop. It’s an Asus Eee PC 1201HA. Here is some specifications:
RAM: DDR2 SODIMM (2GB)
HDD: SATA 2.5" (250 GB)
CPU: Intel Atom Z520 single core low voltage (http://ark.intel.com/products/35466) (and yeah, it’s slow)
Chipset: Intel US15W (http://ark.intel.com/products/35444/Intel-SCH-US15W)
Asus homepage for this model:
http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_P...specifications
The GPU is integrated with the chipset.
The error:
I have a graphical issue. When booting I got one of two problems:
*A black screen. I know I have booted because I have seen the OEM picture of Asus at the boot and the little pling that prompts for the password
* Booting, seeing the OEM-picture and then the pling but only half a screen. The bottom half is the color the Joker in Batman likes. The color of Ubuntu for 12. It’s not red, not blue. Sorry, English is my second language. Anyhow, the top half is distorted and I can’t make heads or tail of it. I can log in as a guest, but then I can’t do any updates or installation. It will not either accepted “sudo” commands in Terminal.
I have googled it and found some promising leads.
* http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1872768
I have done the steps that the thread mentioned on the third input, I.E.
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/emgd
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xorg-emgd emgd-dkms emgd-xorg-conf
sudo emgd-xorg-conf
I have done in recovery mode, hooked to Internet via Ethernet. Did not work.
* http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1453445
Not so much information about how to troubleshot the issue, more that the chipset is not so great.
* An article from ask.ubuntu but for the life of me, I can’t find it. That article mentioned that you should try to install N-Vidia drivers via recovery mode and as root. Allthough, the more I read about the problem, the less I belive it is relevant.
I will contiune reading in the forums about this chipset and the errors it’s causing for Ubuntu-user. My hope by posting my trouble is that someone have stumbled upon this chipset and found a guide on how to troubleshoot it and fix it.
So, please, please with some cookies on the side, does anyone know of this issue with the Intel US15W chipset?
Warm regards from the cold Sweden
Leopold
October 2012
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