o4_srt
January 13th, 2009, 12:07 AM
I recently installed hardy on my laptop (sony vaio vgn-fw260j) alongside vista.
After creating a new partition for hardy, I inserted the disc, restarted, and tried to install. Everything went well, until X started (at least, thats when I'm assuming it happened). The screen turned black, with a faint white wavy pattern on it, and nothing happened from there.
So, i rebooted, and ran the installer in safe graphics mode. Problem solved, at least I thought.
Now, i'm stuck in safe graphics mode. Cannot change resolution to anything higher than 800x600, and when I try to reconfigure x, i get a postinst error. (see future post, have to reboot in ubuntu).
also, whenever i autoconfigure (sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg) and restart, I get the same black screen.
also, in GRUB, when i edit the command line that starts ubuntu (the kernel line), it says xforcevesa at the end, so its forcing safae graphics every time, but if i remove that clause, the same black screen appears.
Graphics are a GMA4500MHD Intel Mobile Express 4 chipset, capable of 1600x900, which is working fine in vista. I'm unable to find any drivers or firmware for it, and since I cannot access the internet from ubuntu yet, I can't use the upgrade manager.
After creating a new partition for hardy, I inserted the disc, restarted, and tried to install. Everything went well, until X started (at least, thats when I'm assuming it happened). The screen turned black, with a faint white wavy pattern on it, and nothing happened from there.
So, i rebooted, and ran the installer in safe graphics mode. Problem solved, at least I thought.
Now, i'm stuck in safe graphics mode. Cannot change resolution to anything higher than 800x600, and when I try to reconfigure x, i get a postinst error. (see future post, have to reboot in ubuntu).
also, whenever i autoconfigure (sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg) and restart, I get the same black screen.
also, in GRUB, when i edit the command line that starts ubuntu (the kernel line), it says xforcevesa at the end, so its forcing safae graphics every time, but if i remove that clause, the same black screen appears.
Graphics are a GMA4500MHD Intel Mobile Express 4 chipset, capable of 1600x900, which is working fine in vista. I'm unable to find any drivers or firmware for it, and since I cannot access the internet from ubuntu yet, I can't use the upgrade manager.