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Hello everybody

Yesterday I downloaded Mint 14 (MATE). When I tried to install it on my Acer Aspire One D270 Netbook, it couldn't load the live system because X "can't find (the) screens". When I plugged in an additional screen I got the same picture on both screens but it worked. After the installation, however, I got the same mistake again but this time, the workaround with the the external screen does not work. The system loads but without starting X.

Has anyone come across a similar problem and/or can tell me what to do (besides of getting back to Mint 13 )

Thank you.

I had the same problem with many distros, including Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu 12.10. As much as i have read about Aspire D270 its graphics Driver is not well supported in Linux world, however I am now using LMDE 2012-4 and happy with it, even without updating its packages since once I tried to update its xserver.xorg and it failed the way you already mentioned, no X!

Perhaps I should mention that Mint 13 worked (almost) perfectly, despite the generic graphics driver

Please run inxi -Gx in terminal and post the output, then we'll know what graphics card the computer has.

Hello

I have exactly the same problem on the same notebook.
I give the result of inxi -Gx to accelerate the issue.

Graphics: Card: Intel Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: vesa,intel (unloaded: fbdev) Resolution: 1024x600@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 9.0 Direct Rendering: Yes

I can work, but I have to enter with the "recovery mode". It works well, but it's not ideal

Thank's

@ Ujot, owari, and jpggsb: I suppose you're all having the same laptop with the same GPU. Please install cedarview-graphics-drivers from Software Manager.

I don't find any "cedar-graphics-drivers" with the Software manager, and no more among the synaptic packages!

Ok sorry, that one is only available on 13. Intel has yet to release a driver compatible with 14.

Hi,

I can add to this, but I don't have much tech. knowledge, so the vocab may be off, and I can't offer a solution, just an experience. I'm hoping someone else can make use of it and let me know what's happening. I have an Acer Aspire D270 as well. I am keeping that as built, but for some while I have run LMDE from a partition on an external HDD. I have put Mint 14 on my old netbook A110L and liked the way it looked and ran, so I decided to replace LMDE on the USB HDD with 14 as well. When LMDE boots up on the d270 there is something about the fonts that looks a bit 'soft'.

Booting a 'live cd' on a usb stick is no problem. Everything comes up and looks great; crystal clear and sharp desktop. I can run the install to the external HDD without issue, but when I restart and boot from the external HDD I just about see the splash and the boot process then reports a problem with running X-server and suggests that its not configured properly. How did I manage to boot with no problems from the USB live cd stick?

I have tried re-booting from the external HDD a few times and get the same problem. I have then run the boot in recovery mode, selecting the option to fix or re-write grub? (sorry, not looking at that screen at the moment). A bit of processing goes on and then the D270 seems to hang. If I now force power off and re-boot from the external HDD (not in recovery mode), Mint 14 starts up fine. The Gui is snappy and I can get all the latest updates installed.

If I shut down and restart again from the external hdd, I'm back to square one, no x-server. Does that help anyone? If you have any ideas, I'd be eternally grateful.

Thanks in anticipation.

Hi again,
Just saw this link about Puppy linux titled "Cedarview graphics support in Slacko"

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83636


which has exploited the linux (closed source?) driver from the intel website here:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ ... dID=21938

Although the intel website explicitly talks only about N2800 CPUs but the puppy linux page also addresses the issue with Aspire D270 netbooks (if I am not wrong N2600's GPUs are also GMA3600?). Does this news open any hope for us to see the driver packaged in Mint in a near future?

PS. I have not checked that puppy linux yet to see if it works well on my AOD270 machine or not.

Indeed, all N2xxx and D2xxx have the same GPU. Note that this is about four-digit models only, not the older N270/N280, since those two are usually paired with decent Intel graphics.