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. <br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 5/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Schmidt
</b> <<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Looks largely moot now.
<br><br>--tim<br><br>On 5/14/06, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I ran Caldera ( a long time ago! ) on the old<br>> box. Nothing on the newer box, but will be trying
<br>> some others. Both boxes run windoz fine -<br>> fine considering windoz anyway.<br>><br>><br>> I'll try the vesa driver on the new machine. As<br>> mentioned, the "live" CD runs on the old machine,
<br>> albeit quit slowly. Too slowly to be interesting.<br>><br>><br>> Manually resetting the machine? I don't follow.<br>><br>><br>> "Check the MD5 / SHA1 signature of the ISO?" How
<br>> do I do that?<br>><br>><br>> The motherboard is an ASUS A7A266. About<br>> 5 or 6 years old. The display card is an ATI<br>> "Rage Fury Pro." 32MB of memory.<br>><br>>
<br>> I'll try a CD-R rather than a CD-RW at some point<br>> with the "install" version. Seems far fetched, but<br>> nothing else is making much sense at this point.<br>><br>><br>> -Bob
<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> On 5/14/06, Tim Schmidt <<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> On 5/14/06, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">
bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > The "live" version came up on an older machine, but<br>> > was indeed too slow to be interesting. On a newer<br>> > machine it comes up to a point, and then I get display
<br>> > problems.<br>><br>> Have you given other recent Linux distributions a shot on the same<br>> hardware? You could also try specifying the vesa display driver,<br>> which should work on any graphics hardware.
<br>><br>> > The "install" version results in the endless "Press a key<br>> > to reboot" messages. I'm repeating myself a bit here,<br>> > but just to be clear, it is the "install" version that I am
<br>> > really interested in. The "live" version can't be taken<br>> > seriously except as a demo vehicle.<br>><br>> Sounds like either a bad CD, a funky ACPI setup, or some other odd<br>> problem. Have you tried manually resetting the machine?
<br>><br>> > I suspect Ubuntu has to work better than this, given its<br>> > reputation, which is why I brought up the possibility that<br>> > there might be some kind of "burn" issue, even though
<br>> > just what escapes me. The DVD/CD device works fine<br>> > in all other respects. I routinely use it for backups.<br>><br>> Check the MD5 / SHA1 signature of the ISO?<br>><br>> > Now, my machine is a home rolled unit too, so I really
<br>> > can't go and say to anyone "Ubuntu doesn't work on an X<br>><br>> So are all mine... motherboard and graphics card make and model might help.<br>><br>> --tim<br>> _______________________________________________
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