[ale] Ubuntu 9.10, Thinkpad T30 Display Issues

[Greg Freemyer]

On 11/30/09, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/2009 08:07 AM, Thompson Freeman wrote:
>>
>> I'll try to keep this more coherent than some of my efforts.
>>
>> I have an IBM ThinkPad T30 which I upgraded from Ubuntu9.04
>> to 9.10 over the weekend with less than stellar results for
>> the display. The default settings are unusable, with just
>> about every weird symptom I've ever seen: random screen
>> hash, ghost images, apparent lockup, and I'm not sure what.
>> I can login with gnome-safe and have a working display, but
>> no network support. Or I can downgrade the display to a
>> lower resolution of 600x800 (I think) and get a mostly
>> working display with just some artifacts left when a window
>> gets dragged around.
>
> Did you make sure "Desktop Effects" are disabled in
> System->Preferences->Appearance?
>
>> A pair of Google sessions so far has suggested that the
>> video adaptor on the T30 lacks the video memory to handle
>> the modern desktop. The suggestion I've seen is to down
>> grade to a lower color depth, but I've not been able to do
>> so myself due to not finding any xorg.conf file.
>
> Run Xorg -configure to generate one.
>
>> Another issue, just for completeness, include not being
>> able to interrupt the boot process to instruct grub to boot
>> into recovery mode.
>
> You should be able to hit escape to enter the grub menu during boot.
>
>> Looking in /boot/grub I see a boatload
>> of files, but no /boot/grub/menu.1st or other configuration
>> file that I recognize to set a time out value.
>> Anybody got a clue or seven that they would like to share?
>
> Ubuntu has switched from legacy GRUB to GRUB 2. This confused the heck
> out of me too when I first tried to configure it. The wiki [0] should
> point you in the right direction.
>
> [0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>

-- 
Sent from my mobile device

Greg Freemyer
Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team
Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer
Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper -
<http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html>

The Norcross Group
The Intersection of Evidence & Technology
http://www.norcrossgroup.com