ACER Travelmate 3210 laptop installation problem

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Hi all,
I have been trying to install linux on ACER Travelmate 3210 laptop which has ATI mobility radeon X700 graphics card in it. i have tried ubuntu, madrake limited edition 2005, fedora core linux... every time after installation when i reboot the Xserver fails to start up and it says no monitor detected and goes in comand mode...Please help me fix this problem...i have been struggling with this as i am extremely new to Linux and desperatley need it for my research work.

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Hi,
see this:
Ubuntu Linux on Acer TravelMate 3210.
 

Quote:The only thing needing a bit tweaking is the X server: the LCD screen stays blank until you insert Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,NONE" in the Device section of your xorg.conf, assuming the open-source ati.o driver is used. Anyway, right now you should have a desktop in the front of you

 
When you are in the console, type:
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
 
Find correct section and edit it.
Then press CTRL+O, to WriteOut.
CTRL+X, to exit.
CTRL+G, for help.
 
If you make a error, just restore the backup:
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak /etc/X11/xorg.conf
 
And try again.