I have been having A LOT of trouble with the Intel video drivers on Ubuntu... A LOT. I have been running Ubuntu 10.04 on an old dell computer that has an Intel video card and it has been a struggle to say the least. Arg. I found this link http://www.ivankristianto.com/os/ubuntu/install-intel-latest-driver-to-your-ubuntu-10-04/1278/ a few weeks ago (Ubuntu specific) and it worked, and the video worked, the machine worked great. Then I did an update the other day and it went to crap again. Arg. As I understand it, it is the Intel drivers that are the problem. And it would make sense that is a kernel problem because I have all kinds of screwy crap happen with the machine, like running out of memory every other time I boot the machine... and more. Any ways, you could try 9.10, I didn't have issues with that on a laptop with inlet video drivers (the laptop wouldn't even boot 10.04 ?) Good luck! ==>brian. Timothy Aanerud wrote: > Hi, > I've running Fedora 12 on a NetCom-772 single board computer. It has an > Intel Atom N270 cpu and uses Intel's 945GSE chipset for video and > everything else. It's connected to a 1280x1024 VGA display. ( > http://www.netcomipc.com.tw/catalog/images/NC-772-1.pdf If you want to > see more details about the cpu board.) > > Ever since the 2.6.32 kernel came out I've had nothing but trouble with > video display. In some rev's it will work at 1024x768. Using Fedora > 12's latest kernel 2.6.32.16-141 it won't boot in graphical mode at > all. It gets part way through the boot and then the monitor starts > blinking and the monitor's controller complains about no signal. It's > not pretty. I've had some other weird video problems as various > kernel's have been pushed out. > > When I've looked at /var/logs/messages, I don't see anything there that > looks like a failure notice during the boot. > > When Unbuntu 10.4 came out I tried running that on this board; but, it > too can't seem to get graphical mode. Ubuntu 10.4 uses 2.6.32 kernel so > that doesn't work for what I believe is the same reason. > > The only way I've found to recover my mess is to manually edit /etc/grub > ->../boot/grub/grub.conf and move the kernel 2.6.31 kernel option to > the top of the boot choices. > > 1. Where can I go to figure out what might have changed in the kernel > that has crippled my video display modes? > 2. Is there utility that I can use to shuffle kernel boot choices > beside using vi? > 3. Is there a distribution out there that uses the 2.6.33 or 2.6.34 > kernel or some way to load the latest kernel on Fedora without > having to download source and build it? > > -- > Timothy. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list