For quite sometime I was trying to load Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta1 and beta2 to my Asus Eee PC 1101HA with 1.34 Ghz Intel Atom processor and 1 GB DDR3 RAM. Somehow the distro would get installed but not boot to a GUI due to GMD500.
Either it won't load or even if it loads the display would be half the screen.
Finally I found a way to get around. Once the black screen comes press Ctrl - Alt - F2, it will go to the terminal boot. Enter your login and password.
What we need to do now is edit grub. Write
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
It will open the grub to edit.
Change the line -
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="poulsbo.blacklist=yes console=tty1"
Press Ctrl+x to exit and Y to save the change.
Type in terminal
sudo update-grub
Grub would be updated in a minute and then type
sudo reboot
to restart.
Now the GUI would appear without any pain and Ubuntu 12.04 would run smoothly on your Asus laptop.
The same solution works for other systems with GMD500.
Below is a screenshot of Xubuntu 12.04 on my 1101HA.
Either it won't load or even if it loads the display would be half the screen.
Finally I found a way to get around. Once the black screen comes press Ctrl - Alt - F2, it will go to the terminal boot. Enter your login and password.
What we need to do now is edit grub. Write
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
It will open the grub to edit.
Change the line -
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="poulsbo.blacklist=yes console=tty1"
Press Ctrl+x to exit and Y to save the change.
Type in terminal
sudo update-grub
Grub would be updated in a minute and then type
sudo reboot
to restart.
Now the GUI would appear without any pain and Ubuntu 12.04 would run smoothly on your Asus laptop.
The same solution works for other systems with GMD500.
Below is a screenshot of Xubuntu 12.04 on my 1101HA.
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