10.04 install on Compaq Presario M2000 - Bootsplash & then nothing

[pbajoswb]

I'm trying to install 10.04 on my compaq laptop.

In the past I installed 9.04 & 9.10 without any problems on this machine. I also tried the 10.04 Beta and everthing was OK.

This time around after loading the CD and turning the laptop on, I get as far as the Ubuntu Bootslash with the blinking dots. After about a minute of that, the screen blanks and the CD stop spinning.

I've tried a several times now. I burned a new disk and tested it on my Dell workstation, no problem. But it still won't work on the compaq.

I even just let it sit for a couple of hours to see if that would work. No joy.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[giruzz]

I'm trying to install 10.04 on my compaq laptop.

In the past I installed 9.04 & 9.10 without any problems on this machine. I also tried the 10.04 Beta and everthing was OK.

This time around after loading the CD and turning the laptop on, I get as far as the Ubuntu Bootslash with the blinking dots. After about a minute of that, the screen blanks and the CD stop spinning.

I've tried a several times now. I burned a new disk and tested it on my Dell workstation, no problem. But it still won't work on the compaq.

I even just let it sit for a couple of hours to see if that would work. No joy.

Does anyone have any suggestions?


THis is a but. I have a Presario M2037 and I am having the same issue. I can't do a fresh install...

please helpppp

giruzz

[Tron2.0]

Same Problem, Compaq Presario v2000. The screen goes blank through the install of 10.04 and it just stops. What should we do?

[Catharsis]

What graphics card do you have?

lspci | grep VGA

[boston617]

I have the same issue with 10.04 lucid on my Presario V2000. I gat the splash then nothing. I also tried kubuntu 10.04 with no luck:(. I have 9.10 karmic on it for now and it runs just fine.


lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

[Catharsis]

I have the same issue with 10.04 lucid on my Presario V2000. I gat the splash then nothing. I also tried kubuntu 10.04 with no luck:(. I have 9.10 karmic on it for now and it runs just fine.


lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)


You are suffering from a known bug with i855 graphics cards. Please see Workaround A here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes

[Tron2.0]

You are suffering from a known bug with i855 graphics cards. Please see Workaround A here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes

In that link is says - "For release we made the decision to blacklist KMS for 8xx hardware."

Does that mean they will not fix this problem at all?

[Catharsis]

They made the decision to blacklist KMS to solve a problem for a couple users with other intel chipsets. Unfortunately, they didn't expect this to have the backlash that it did. They're currently looking into an upstream fix for both issues. It's a catch-22: with each KMS flag, one group of intel users gets hosed.

[Tron2.0]

I tried the first work around. It didn't work. The others don't seem like great options since the performance can be affected. I guess I'll just wait and see if this gets resolved for future upgrades. Everything works great with version 9 on my compaq v2000. I'll stick with that and hopefully there will be a fix.

[cheekoo66]

Hello All,
I faced similiar problem while installing ubuntu 10.04 on my Dell laptop. I worked around in the following manner.

I have winxp on the machine.
- Insert the CD while windows is running and let it auto-run. If it doesnot, run wubi (I guess) to start installation.
- Press full install (or similiar option)
- Now here's the tricky part: select the option that says that select if your pc can not boot from CD. It copies necessary data onto your hard disk and you can boot into that and install Ubuntu. Let your ubuntu CD be inside the CD tray. as i guess installer uses it. I saw that laptop was reading from the CD during install.

Hope this helps, and sorry for not giving exact options. It's been sometime since I installed 10.04 and have forgot the exact option names.

Pls update the thread if this solution works for you.

Sumit

[inversecow]

You are suffering from a known bug with i855 graphics cards. Please see Workaround A here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes


[12:47:09:rtownshend@compaqtor:~]
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

"Workaround A: Re-enable KMS" worked perfectly for my Compaq Presario M2010US (from the HDD in a root shell, no "live" media used, no GRUB editing, no problems).
I did an upgrade from a running 9.10 system (patched to current prior to upgrading the distro).

Thanks for the link!

[pbajoswb]

I found a partial solution while searching around in google.....

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-fix-ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup.html

Solution #2 seems to work pretty well on my Compaq.

The only issue that I have with it is that my screen now has a noticable flicker that causes me some eyestrain. I've tried changing the display settings, but the refresh rate seems to be locked at 0Hz.

I'm going to keep looking.

Any further input would be appreciated.

Thanks

[boston617]

You are suffering from a known bug with i855 graphics cards. Please see Workaround A here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes

Method A kinda worked. I can boot into Lucid, but now I can't log into my server and any video causes X to freeze (crash and then flashes the command line boot messages about 4 times before going blank). I'm gonna go back to Karmic for the time being. I hope they do get a fix for this, because Lucid runs nice other than the X issues.

[pbajoswb]

I tried Method A from the link that "inversecow (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=59677)" provided and it worked well on my Compaq.

To set it up so you don't have to do it manually every time you need alter grub to invoke the "i915.modeset=1" sequence at each boot. Looking around I find allot of postings talking about editing the "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" file. I also find allot of postings that this is the wrong thing to do. Some software updates cause the grub menu to be recompiled and any changes to "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" lost.

I found information on the right track is provided by a "hislordship" at the this link....

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1326133&page=2


The steps I followed were...

1. I opened the Terminal and typed "sudo gedit /etc/default/grub"

2. I edited line #9 on the file from....

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.modeset=1"

3. I saved the file and typed "sudo update-grub" into the terminal. This updated the grub menu and will be persistent if any software updates cause the menu to be recompiled.

[Catharsis]

I tried Method A from the link that "inversecow (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=59677)" provided and it worked well on my Compaq.

To set it up so you don't have to do it manually every time you need alter grub to invoke the "i915.modeset=1" sequence at each boot. Looking around I find allot of postings talking about editing the "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" file. I also find allot of postings that this is the wrong thing to do. Some software updates cause the grub menu to be recompiled and any changes to "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" lost.

...

Or you could just follow what the link says...

echo options i915 modeset=1 | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
sudo update-initramfs -u

[ruffneck]

You are suffering from a known bug with i855 graphics cards. Please see Workaround A here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes

This resolved the issue for me - "i915.modeset=1" Thanks a million!

[inversecow]

Method A kinda worked. I can boot into Lucid, but now I can't log into my server and any video causes X to freeze (crash and then flashes the command line boot messages about 4 times before going blank). I'm gonna go back to Karmic for the time being. I hope they do get a fix for this, because Lucid runs nice other than the X issues.

I've been getting this also.
Not sure exactly where the wheels have fallen off, but it keeps me from watching *any* non web-based (Flash) media. :-(
Also, it expresses in games (EG: Scorch3D).
It would seem any graphical "Heavy Lifting" triggers this.
The system seems to function fine otherwise (EG: I can still get my fix of OOlite (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=oolite)).

Is there any word on the upstream patch mentioned earlier in the thread?

[Catharsis]

I've been getting this also.
Not sure exactly where the wheels have fallen off, but it keeps me from watching *any* non web-based (Flash) media. :-(
Also, it expresses in games (EG: Scorch3D).
It would seem any graphical "Heavy Lifting" triggers this.
The system seems to function fine otherwise (EG: I can still get my fix of OOlite (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=oolite)).

Is there any word on the upstream patch mentioned earlier in the thread?

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27187
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/541511

[inversecow]

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27187
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/541511

Cool, thanks Catharsis (for the links, and for being on top of informing people who are asking the same sorts of questions). :-)

I went back to 9.10 and everything is perky once again.
I think I will test out the above steps in one of the coming weekends to see if they help.

Will this issue be fixed in "MaverickMeerkat" (as its running the 2.6.34 kernel (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/TechnicalOverview#Linux%20kernel%202.6.34))?

[Catharsis]

Will this issue be fixed in "MaverickMeerkat" (as its running the 2.6.34 kernel (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/TechnicalOverview#Linux%20kernel%202.6.34))?

Actually Maverick is running 2.6.35. But anyway, the plan for Maverick is to package an old -intel driver for i8xx machines, since as the driver continues to be developed, the focus shifts farther and farther away from old i8xx cards and more into the i9xx series, especially as we transfer to KMS and deprecate UMS.

[3r 6460]

My model for the M2000 is m2318la, first installed 8.04 lts desktop edition then did the upgrade to 10.04lts(8.10 then 9.04 and so on) it`s working fine n smooth. I did not notice there was a Netbook Edition, and specs in wiki says Intel Atom is required + 512mb ram, there is no mins specs so... Does anyone knows if i can install UNE 10.04 in my lap without problems?
Sound:
ICH4 - Intel ICH6 with Cx2048-31 (at irq 17)
HDD:
IC25N060ATMR04-0
Ethernet
Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+(rev10)
Wireless
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200B/G[Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
Processor: Intel Centrino M at 1.63ghz

[lcutti]

I had the same problem with the 10.04 install discs. I even downloaded twice, thinking that the download or the burning was not OK.
It gave me the red and white dots walking below the Ubuntu logo, then black screen.

Its a desktop machine



ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

[Catharsis]

I had the same problem with the 10.04 install discs. I even downloaded twice, thinking that the download or the burning was not OK.
It gave me the red and white dots walking below the Ubuntu logo, then black screen.

Its a desktop machine



ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)



You should try booting with "nomodeset" in the grub line, and then installing the proprietary nVidia driver through Jockey.

[lcutti]

Actually, I think I did succeed upgrading to 10.04, but I have problems with booting.
It did work fine after the first reboot, then after the second reboot Ive been never able to boot into 10.04.
Please look at the story at>

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1539175

Would I really need to bother with the graphic card, just for the install? Otherwise it worked fine.

My main problem now is, that I can not boot into any of my Ubuntus.

Now Im on the 9.10 live cd.