[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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