Graphics Problem

[legaleagll]

First, I am a newbie to Linux so please bear with me in my ignorance.

I have an Artigo A1100 which has the Chrome9 video. When I boot up the system on the Artigo I see the initial boot sequence, the Ubuntu logo and then when it is about to go to the desktop login screen the video goes completely scrambled. I can type in my login and password and I see the screen change as if it has logged in, but it is completely scrambled. It almost reminds me of the problems old tv's had when the screen would start flipping because it wasn't dialed in just right.

If I hit ALT+CTRL+F1 it will go to the command line interface and everything looks fine.

Anyone have any suggestions for what I should try at this point?

Oh, yeah, it is the newest release of Ubuntu I downloaded yesterday and I know it works because I installed to a USB drive and everything works just fine when I boot off the drive using another computer of mine.

[u8675309]

I have the same problem and am looking forward to someone providing an answer. It's frustrating, because Win7 seems to get the video working just fine.

[devils casper]

Login at tty1 ( Alt+Ctrl+F1 ) and execute this

sudo Xorg -configure

In case it doesn't work, post the output of this

lspci | grep -i vga

Post output here.

Try to

[legaleagll]

After spending a few hours trying to track this down I ended up installing 9.04 (or maybe it was 9.10, can't remember right now) and it booted up perfect. Something in 10.04 video drivers isn't kosher with the chipset in the VIA Artigo. I just ran out of patience to track it down and didn't really care whether I had 10 or 9 so I just downgraded.

[D-cat]

That can work for now. You should still try to track down the solution for when 9.x support runs out in 2011. 10.04 is a Long-Term Support release.

My guess is the frequency defaults in 10 were just a little excessive for the screen and could be manually solved in the Xorg.conf file (which these days would have to be created first, per Casper's instructions). It is a process, so you don't need to do it until you feel ready.

[legaleagll]

Thought I would run through the paces on this one


The first thing you asked me to do simply got a

"Fatal Server Error. Server is already active for this display 0.

If this server is no longer running remove /tmp.X0-lock and sstart again."

Here is the log after doing the lspci | grep -i vga

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX855/VX875 Chrome 9 CM Integrated Graphics.

Your thoughts?

[D-cat]

Since the display was still running, sure.

lead off with

sudo service gdm stop

should shut down X server, then the

sudo Xorg -configure

should work.

[legaleagll]

OK, so I stopped the service and entered sudo Xorg - configure and it scrolled through a whole bunch of stuff oh so fast. I tried piping the command to |less, but that didn't stop it. I tried Shift+PgUp and it goes up one whole line, but that is it.

Is there some way to stop the scrolling other than piping to less?

[legaleagll]

After reading caspers original post, I realized perhaps you weren't looking for the output of sudo Xorg -configure. That command did work and created a new file called Xorg.conf.new.

Is that what you were looking to have happen, if so, I got to that point, now what?

Thanks again for the help.

[devils casper]

It must have generate new xorg.conf file. Post the contents of xorg.conf file here, if any.