Poulbo (GMA500) running Sony Vaio P-Series microlaptop with screen resolution problem at startup
Running Ubuntu 12.04 on Vaio VPCP11SKX, late model Sony Vaio P-Series microlaptop. Trial on USB boot worked well, so I loaded onto hard drive. On startup, the screen turned black, but found a reference to a method for changing a setting (TTY) which now allwos me to see the screen on startup. Unfortunately, it will randomly choose to display on a quarter (upper left) or half (upper) screen. Only by logout when half the screen is displayed will the whole display work. Checking system settings for graphics results in an "unknown" If the screen shows quarter display, I have to restart until upper half displays. Then I can logout and get whole display to work at the 1600x768 resolution.
I had hoped 12.04 would work as well as it did on the trial version via USB boot. Once I get throught the steps, the system works great -so much better than the Windows 7 that was mucked up with Sony proprietary software.
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