Posted: 12/9/2007 9:17:50 PM EDT
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Recently decided to move to linux as my primary OS on my computer, with dual booting XP for gaming, which I am doing less and less. The only distro I've had any experience with is Ubuntu on a friends computer, and as such it was the first thing I tried. Didn't work. Tried Sabayon, worked great. Only issue is that it refuses to recognize my wifi card, and I can't install drivers for a live CD. Though Id see if Ubuntu did better at recognizing the card. Went to try it again and it failed, again. After selecting the run ubuntu option, it displays the loading splash and starts to boot. After is goes back and forth for a bit, it loads left to right like I'd expect. No problems here. The issue is that immediatly after the loading bit, the screen flickers and then displays this and stops everything: *Starting deferred execution scheduler atd [ok] *starting periodic command scheduler crond [ok] *checking battery state [ok] *Running local boot scripts (/ect/rc.local) [ok] My system is an MSI neo k8n mobo, AMD 3700+, NVIDIA 7600GT, 512x2 DDR 400, 160 gig HDD. Onboard sound. I do have the 64 bit version. Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty is the distro version. Sabayon boots just fine. |
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Is it possible you downloaded the server distro? mirrors.gigenet.com/ubuntu/7.10/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso That should be the file you need. If that mirror doesn't work, just go to another one and make sure you get the 'ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso' file. |
My NVIDIA card worked fine, but I suppose that is possible. Try posting this on the Ubuntu forums and see what they have to say. ETA: link: ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=140 |
I have an NVIDIA 7600GT running Ubuntu fine. There are two drivers: one open source driver by GNU/Linux folks, and one closed source driver by NVIDIA. The default drivers should work with no problem. here are the proprietary closed source drivers if you want to look at them, but I think they're more trouble than they are worth: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html eta some diagnostics At the command prompt type: sudo dmesg | less it'll ask for your root password and then display some diagnostic info; see if any of that looks significant. pressing spacebar will move it down one screen at a time. for specific info about X11 errors type: sudo cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE I think, I don't have a linux box with me at the moment. |