10.10 Install Fail on Toshiba Equium A100 (libc6-dev problem)

[markling]

Clean install.
Appeared to work fine.
Restart after install OK.
Ran Update Manager:
It started work on some 300-odd updates,
But froze when "Applying Changes" to the following package:
libc6-dev.

It was "Preparing to configure" libc6-dev,
But couldn't get any further.
The Update Manager window said it was at this point:
"Security Updates - User-space parcer utility for AppArmor"
Total freeze-up.

Forced restart.
Got to password screen OK.
Then to blank screen:
Regulation purple background,
Mouse working but nothing to click on.
Nada.

This is all most unfortunate. The computer belongs to someone I know. They were getting fed up with their other operating system. I suggested Ubuntu. I've got their laptop on a promise to set them up with Ubuntu. I don't have long. They need it quickly. I may have no choice but to give it back to them with their old operating system on it. Won't be any skin off their nose.

Toshiba Equium A100-549 Model PSAA4E-00100MAV

[markling]

I did this twice with the same outcome.
Next morning, however, it has booted OK.
Update manager says the O/S is up to date.

But it doesn't work properly.
It has a =>Graphics Problem<=

ATI Radeon Xpress 200M
Extremely slow and jittery
E.g. Moving windows with the mouse

I've been scanning forums for an answer.
AMD appear to do a proprietary ATI driver download
But I couldn't find Xpress 200M among linux options on AMD site

Note: I was not given the option of installing a proprietary ATI driver
when I selected the Additional Drivers option
from Ubuntu's > System > Administration menu.

I cannot therefore install a proprietary linux graphics driver.

What a terrible shame.
I was replacing XP with Ubuntu on a machine
that belongs to someone I know.
They can't wait while I try and get the install working.
They have a new baby.
It is vital they have a working computer.
I shall have to revert the machine to XP.
What a terrible shame.

There's a bigger ==> Ubuntu install problem <== here:
It seems that there is no Radeon Xpress 200M Linux driver
(See: http://www.petitiononline.com/x200MLin/petition.html)
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Elsewhere I'm told there is a working driver:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver#Unsupported
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Either way, I've got a life to live and can't spend my whole life trawling forums just to get an upgrade working. If there is a working ATI 200M driver, Ubuntu should have installed it. If there's not a working ATI 200M driver, Ubuntu should have told me before performing the install and saved me hours of trouble.
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I've still got to get a working O/S on this computer and get it back to its rightful owner. It's going to have to be XP.

[markling]

I've got a load of ATI driver links in case anyone's interested.

They're no good for me, really. Apparently, there's a proprietary ATI driver and an open source driver. I've no idea which one is one this Tosh after installing Ubuntu 10.10. I couldn't care less. It's just got to work from the off, man.

I would have posted the Tosh logs here, but the machine's not stable enough to allow me even to cut and paste them into a browser window. I'm typing this from another machine.

xorg.0.log had dozens of Radeon entries, but none related to what sysinfo says is the chipset on the machine: Xpress 200M.

I can't find out anymore because its crashed again. Just locks up. Mouse freezes. It was barely usable anyway. Like, I said, I've got to put XP back on it.

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.16.20.html

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver#Unsupported

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

http://www.amd.com/us/products/embedded/develop-and-design/Pages/processor-chipset-linux-supprt.aspx

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/8.8.25

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/FglrxInteferesWithRadeonDriver#Problem:%20%20Need% 20to%20fully%20remove%20-fglrx%20and%20reinstall%20-ati%20from%20scratch

[markling]

Mission abort.

[josephmills]

after install and you update are you doing this from synaptic or from terminal? also could you put the live cd in and go to the terminal and give us some specs about this machine
lshw thanks

[markling]

Thanks, Jopseph, but I had only a brief window. I had to give up on Ubuntu on this occasion. The update was done through the Update Manager.

The specs of the Toshiba Equium A100-549 were as follows:

Pheonix CME FirstBios Notebook Pro 2.30
ATI RC410MB+SV450 Motherboard (Goldfish)
Intel Celeron 1.3GHz
Fujitsu MHV2040BH HD