Upgrade 11.10 to 12.04 on Acer L100

Please tell the brand of your graphic card

The Acer Aspire L100 has almost everything built into the motherboard -- certainly the graphics.

It's really about the graphics chipset. You were asked this because there have been known issues with certain nvidia graphics systems - both onboard and separate.

I'll try to find a working L100 and see what graphics chipset is used.

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Your question #195454 on update-manager in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/195454

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Barry Drake requested more information:
It's really about the graphics chipset.  You were asked this because
there have been known issues with certain nvidia graphics systems - both
onboard and separate.

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NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE is shown as the "display adapter" in Windows 7 running on an "identical" acer aspire L100.

I have some more information. I attempted to install 11.04 from a CD and it also failed near the end of the installation -- even though I had installed from the same CD on this same L100 earlier in the year -- so I assumed that I had a hardware problem. However, on a whim, I took the hard drive out of the L100 and put it in another system which supported SATA. I was able to successfully install 11.04 and then upgrade to 11.10 and then upgrade to 12.04. I then put the harddrive back in the L100. After a little bit of using shift and enter keys I was able to bring up 12.04 on the L100 and, in fact, I am using the L100 to write this note. So there appears to be a problem during installation that is not present once installation is finished?? I am certainly confused, but I'm happy to have my L100 working again. I know that this will be a very low priority issue now that I found a workaround of sorts, but I still would like to understand what is going on.

What happens if you boot from the DVD and choose the 'Try Ubuntu' option?

With the 11.04 CD in place and the bios set to boot from CD first, the system runs long enough to show the Ubuntu screen with the red/white dots for about a minute, then when I would expect to see the choice of trying or installing Ubuntu, the computer shutsdown abruptly. When I restart and manage to remove the CD so that I boot from the 12.04 harddrive, it works fine.

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