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UphillSkier
May 7th, 2010, 03:53 AM
Lucid Lynx won't boot my laptop. As it loads I get a message
"wbsd unable to assign resources". Then the splash screen comes up momentarily and the screen goes blank. This happens
a. when I did a cdromupgrade from the 10.4 alternate disk
b. when I did a full install from the alternate disk
c. when I tried the live cd ( the 10.4 desktop disk)

Koala (9.10) was running fine before I trashed it with (b) above.I am now running from the 8.04 LTS desktop disk, which also works fine. Can anyone suggest what might be going on?

This is an older laptop manufactured by MDG (Canada) with a Pentium (R) M processor and 486.4 MiB

I plan to get a 9.10 desktop disk and reinstall from that, but I'd sure like to know what is the problem with 10.4.

thanks for any help
Catharsis
May 7th, 2010, 05:13 AM
What is the output of:

lspci | grep VGA?
UphillSkier
May 7th, 2010, 12:54 PM
What is the output of:

lspci | grep VGA?

Thanks for ansering, Catharsis.

This is while running on8.10 LTS disk


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
UphillSkier
May 7th, 2010, 01:32 PM
Catharsis

I followed your advice in this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1474464


namely to insert i915.modeset=1 after quiet splash in the GRUB commands to load the kernel.

I still got the unable to assign resources message but the boot continued successfully through to login.

Thanks a million.:p
dino99
May 7th, 2010, 01:37 PM
i think your laptop have not enough ram, you should try with something like xfce or lxde

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9216264&postcount=14

found this:
*** wbsd is a ISA device so it might not be handled properly with modern
dists (which assume everything is PCI or similar). Fedora was also
broken until I pointed out the problem to them. ****

sudo update-pciids && update-usbids
Catharsis
May 7th, 2010, 03:49 PM
Catharsis

I followed your advice in this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1474464


namely to insert i915.modeset=1 after quiet splash in the GRUB commands to load the kernel.

I still got the unable to assign resources message but the boot continued successfully through to login.

Thanks a million.:p

Glad to hear it. You can make the change permanent with Workaround A here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes