First boot went perfectly, except for a garbled (split in the middle and distorted at some places) screen. Got to the GNOME desktop and was able to select the install icon and run it.
Then I upgraded the bios to A13 from Windows XP. A new boot gives a perfect screen, but after the Ubuntu logo disappears, the following text lines start pooring in with about 1,5 second intervals: [17179712.624000] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 7 same for blocks 0,1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6 etc. This continues quite some time and doesn't seem to result in any progress. Reading some of the fora, I then decided to reburn the CD at single speed. This helped and I now get the same old broken screen again. Even using the vga=771 option produces the same gabled screen (although the screen before GNOME is differently aligned) So, then I burned the alternate iso (at single speed) and tried that. Installation went well. However I then get the same problems at the login screen. First I thought, well I'll just open another terminal using CRTL-ALT-F1, but after trying all the function keys and alt in combination with the arrow keys, I couldn't get anything but a black screen. So, my question is: what now? Any good links and tips? Greetings, Bram PS If somewone could open up an Inspiron 8000 page in the wiki, I would be willing to send in some specs etc.. -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
