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IBM ThinkPad T20 black screen with ubuntu

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

A friend of mine was having black screen and lockup problems with a IBM ThinkPad T20 laptop. The problem persisted with ubuntu, xubuntu and kubuntu. Even the graphic installation screen didn’t show.

After googling a bit, i found this site, which explains all. All you have to do, is to use non-graphic installation (use the Ubuntu alternate install CD, because it doesn’t use X).

After the installation, enter to the Grub menu by pressing Esc, when the Grub boots up and select the recovery kernel. When you are in as a root, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

In a Section Device, add a line “Option “BusType” “PCI”. As shown below. It is case sensitive.

Section "Device"
       Identifier      "S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV"
       Driver          "savage"
       BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
       Option          "BusType" "PCI"
EndSection

That worked for us.

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Old server broke down

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

My old server had a major harddrive breakdown but luckily I had a new server awaiting for installation. Too bad that it seems that I lost all of my data and I can’t find backups anywhere. I’m going to see if the data can still be rescued.

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