[ELECTRON] Computer based win.

[Martin McGrath]

On 16 November 2011 22:52, <smollet at piratepress.doesntexist.org> wrote:

> So.... Some stuff is successful, some stuff not so much.
>
> The r128 video driver detects the card correctly, but something borks the
> display before anything sensible is displayed. I'm presuming forcing it to
> specific video modes through xorg.conf is the arcane technomantic trick
> that
> will have it risen from the bricked quickest. Suspicous of the Hitachi
> CML170SXW monitor. It might be encouraging the card to overstretch its
> limits.
>
> Anyhoo, I've installed n2n, and my ssh key so I can get in to hack and add
> other users remotely. I have a shell script for starting n2n from the
> debian
> install if anyone wants to muck in.
>
> If anyone wants a shell account or has suggestions on how to handle the
> hardware issues, please speak up.
>

The last time I had to reinstall Ubuntu on this I had to fall back to Gnome
2 from Unity.
It would get to the login screen, allow me to logon then under light use
the entire thing would lock up.
I set it up to default to Gnome 2 and normal service was resumed.

Cheers

Martin
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