[GRLUG] Ubuntu live and install issues

David Pembrook david at pembrook.net
Tue May 16 13:55:35 EDT 2006


I've said it before and I'll say it again.... We should get a wiki 
going! Everyone can edit, its searchable, its awsome.

I can't live without my private wiki.. Keep my notes in there, links, my 
own howto's compiled from others.

Dave

Bob Kline wrote:
> Just curious,  has anyone here posted any
> Linux related material on the web?   Since
> so many people here seem to use google
> as their first choice for solving problems, 
> perhaps the solutions found here should then
> be posted somewhere too.  In the spirit of
> give a little,  don't just take.
>
>    -Bob
>
> On 5/16/06, *Jordan Hudson* <jodanlime at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jodanlime at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     yeah, linux and ati dont get along good with each other sometimes,
>     I would google that card and ubuntu together, see what you can
>     come up with there, I'm sure somebody has a similar problem.
>
>     On 5/16/06, *Bob Kline* <bob.kline at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bob.kline at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've been very lucky with my look at Ubuntu.....  :-(
>      
>     The display problems occurred with two machines.
>     Both have ATI cards,  which,  while old,  are
>     nevertheless common video cards.
>
>     I was a bit surprised.
>
>
>        -Bob
>
>
>     On 5/16/06, *Jordan Hudson* < jodanlime at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jodanlime at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     wow, I've never had a display problem with ubuntu, maybe you
>     should try the expert setup, maybe ol' breezy is just seeing your
>     card wrong.
>
>
>
>     On 5/15/06, *Tim Schmidt * <timschmidt at gmail.com
>     <mailto:timschmidt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Looks largely moot now.
>
>         --tim
>
>         On 5/14/06, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com
>         <mailto:bob.kline at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         > I ran Caldera ( a long time ago! ) on the old
>         >  box.  Nothing on the newer box,  but will be trying
>         >  some others.  Both boxes run windoz fine -
>         >  fine considering windoz anyway.
>         >
>         >
>         >   I'll try the vesa driver on the new machine.  As
>         >   mentioned,  the "live" CD runs on the old machine,
>         >   albeit quit slowly.  Too slowly to be interesting.
>         >
>         >
>         >   Manually resetting the machine?   I don't follow.
>         >
>         >
>         >   "Check the MD5 / SHA1 signature of the ISO?"  How
>         >   do I do that?
>         >
>         >
>         >   The motherboard is an ASUS  A7A266.  About
>         >    5 or 6 years old.  The display card is an ATI
>         >    "Rage Fury Pro."   32MB of memory.
>         >
>         >
>         >   I'll try a CD-R rather than a CD-RW at some point
>         >   with the "install" version.  Seems far fetched,  but
>         >   nothing else is making much sense at this point.
>         >
>         >
>         >      -Bob
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > On 5/14/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com
>         <mailto:timschmidt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         > >
>         >  On 5/14/06, Bob Kline < bob.kline at gmail.com
>         <mailto:bob.kline at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         > > The "live" version came up on an older machine, but
>         > > was indeed too slow to be interesting.   On a newer
>         > > machine it comes up to a point,  and then I get display
>         > > problems.
>         >
>         > Have you given other recent Linux distributions a shot on
>         the same
>         > hardware?  You could also try specifying the vesa display
>         driver,
>         > which should work on any graphics hardware.
>         >
>         > > The "install" version results in the endless "Press a key
>         > > to reboot" messages.   I'm repeating myself a bit here,
>         > > but just to be clear,  it is the "install" version that I am
>         > > really interested in.   The "live" version can't be taken
>         > > seriously except as a demo vehicle.
>         >
>         > Sounds like either a bad CD, a funky ACPI setup, or some
>         other odd
>         > problem.  Have you tried manually resetting the machine?
>         >
>         > > I suspect Ubuntu has to work better than this,  given its
>         > > reputation,  which is why I brought up the possibility that
>         > > there might be some kind of "burn" issue,  even though
>         > > just what escapes me.   The DVD/CD device works fine
>         > > in all other respects.  I routinely use it for backups.
>         >
>         > Check the MD5 / SHA1 signature of the ISO?
>         >
>         > > Now,  my machine is a home rolled unit too,  so I really
>         > > can't go and say to anyone "Ubuntu doesn't work on an X
>         >
>         > So are all mine...  motherboard and graphics card make and
>         model might help.
>         >
>         > --tim
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