On 26/11/12 22:19, Keith Edmunds wrote:
"Correct" is an interesting adjective. You could try a text mode install from the alternate [sic] CD (https://help.ubuntu.com/12.10/installation-guide/)
Unfortunately the alternate CD was discontinued with 12.10 (at least as far as I can tell it was).
However I have now managed to get 12.10 to install - a combination of changing to a different monitor and playing with xorg.conf (playing with different HorizSync values until I found one the monitor liked) meant I managed to get a workable 800x600 desktop from which to run the install.
Now all I have to do is make the installed system work....
When trying to install, the graphics was fine through the boot process (I saw the "Ubuntu" text with the four dots underneath it as it booted), but failed when lightdm started (login / desktop). Now it's the opposite: I get "signal out of range" all the way through the boot process but it works (for some value of "works") from the login prompt onwards. However, I can't get better that 800x600, and I get graphics artefacts when I try to do anything with it. I can also no longer switch to a terminal (Alt-Shift-F[1-6]) because they now give me the signal out of range error. I have at least managed to give myself SSH access so I can try things that way instead.
The graphics hardware is ATI RAGE XL (on the motherboard), which ATI no longer support but should be supported by the mach64 driver if only I can work out the right xorg.conf for my hardware. I have to say though that at this point I'm thinking that rolling back to 12.04 (or back even further) is seeming like a better idea. If anyone has any suggestions before I give up on it I'll certainly try them though.
Mark