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Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 installs but to a desktop version, citing a lack of unity driver

Asked by richard shaw

I installed Ubuntu 10.10 netbook onto my girlfriends advent kc500. It installed fine but said there was no unity driver. The desktop version is what it loads to, and it works fine apart from crashing a bit too much. The resolution is stuck at a max of 800 x 600 which makes things a bit tricky to use. I'm guessing the graphics drivers are not working correctly in some way, but I'm at a loss as how to update fix the issue. I just tried live booting from USB to the latest version to see if that helped but the same process happened. I've seen a similar question but that said to log off and to choose the unity option as opposed to the desktop version, but that option is not available as far as I can see. It doesn't show any laptop specific options in the settings menus ( monitor option) and I can't find any updates on the Internet to the graphics card (SIS Mirage3).

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; echo; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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richard shaw (richardalexandershaw) said : 		#2

" No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
Linux Hannahs-Laptop 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 01:41:57 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
hannah@Hannahs-Laptop:~$ "

Thanks for responding so quickly

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Ok and the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

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richard shaw (richardalexandershaw) said : 		#4

Thanks again!

  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter
       vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 10
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:b0000000-b001ffff ioport:9000(size=128)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Try:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

add this code:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName "Monitor Model"
    HorizSync 31.0 - 57.0
    VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Card0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport 0 0
        Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600"
        Depth 24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "X.org Configured"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Card0"
    Driver "sis"
    VendorName "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]"
    BoardName "771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter"
EndSection

Save the new file and close gedit, reboot to test. If you get no desktop, reboot, hold shift and select recovery mode, then select root and run:

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_old; reboot

Then you will be back where you are

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Hang Turi (hangturi) said : 		#6

after installing the new 11.04 the prgm refuse to start asking about Unity driver. Now it behave very strange and difficult to use. Need to get my file inside but difficult to use the prgm how do i go back to 10.10 and save my file/

New with Ubuntu but got the kick of it. So i made mistake..

Thank you
Hang

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