[TriLUG] New Vista laptop needs Linux

[James Jones]

It appears that this is going to be one of those linux installs that
you read about and hope never happens to you. I burned Ubuntu 8.04 and
attempted to start it as a live cd.

Opening screen with the usual menu. test it, install it, etc worked. I
decide to try the live version and click on that. The Ubuntu splash
screen started, and after more than a couple of screens, it appeared
to start but nothing but a garbage screen. You could use touch pad to
move a blob around on the screen. Screen was nothing but hash marks.

I am assuming that it is a video driver problem. Is there a method of
starting the ubuntu live cd from command line which can specify a vga
driver such as the driver used to show splash screen etc at the
beginning of the ubuntu start?

Before you say it, I will be checking the ubuntu forums on this.

jcj

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:05 PM,  <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> Not sure what the level of luck would be, but gentoo has always worked
> flawlessly for me :).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of James Jones
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 12:51 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] New Vista laptop needs Linux
>
> Ed,
>
> I just found the link that you provided about 15 minutes ago. Looks
> like the author of that had some major difficulties with debian. Hope
> the same is not true with Ubuntu, Fedora, or even Centos. I haven't
> decided which distro to go with.
>
> On my past laptops, I have been pleased with All of the above. None of
> them had issues with my wifi card but since this is a built-in wifi
> and wired net interfaces, not sure what I will face on that.
>
> Thanks to All for the comments. I now have a direction. We shall see.
>
> jcj
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:23:44 -0500 John Broome wrote:
>>> James Jones wrote:
>>> > All,
>>> >
>>> > My Christmas present came early. It is a Toshiba Satellite L305
>>> > series laptop. The least expensive laptop that Walmart has on sale
>>> > at the
>>>
>>> Might be worth googling that model and linux or whatever your distro
>>> of choice is to see if someone else has been down the same road.
>>
>>
>> The Toshiba Satellite L305 seems to require a bit of attention:
>>
>>
> http://swinky-linuxblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/ubuntu-on-toshiba-satellite
> -l305-howto.html
>>
>> to get Linux installed and working on it.  I've grown accustomed to
> the
>> so-called "business class" Dells, HPs, and ThinkPads which, for the
>> past few years, have been nearly effort-less wrt Linux installs.
>>
>> Ed
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