[SOLVED] Precise Pangolin: Asus eee PC Issue with GMD500 & display problem with half screen display

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.

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[SOLVED] Is your desktop stretched in Ubuntu? How to install Intel EMGD drivers in Ubuntu?

One problem I faced with my Asus EeePC 1101HA was adjusting the screen resolution. Things would appear really stretched when I installed Ubuntu 11.04. The Display option would have only one option for me (4:3). A little research on the topic and I found the following commands to actually install the Intel EMGD drivers which would give me enough options to choose from:


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/emgd
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xorg-emgd emgd-dkms emgd-xorg-conf
sudo emgd-xorg-conf

Run these codes one after another and then reboot to changes take effect. Now go to

System -> Monitors

You would be able to see all the available options for the monitor configuration.

Hope this solves your problem of adjusting monitor configurations.

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