To whom it may concern, I have the above notebook computer (HP pavilion dv6119us) that I bought back in october of '06 and have been trying for almost as long to get different distros of linux up and running. The stats of my computer are as follows:
AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-50 running @ 1.8 GHz 1024 MB DDR-RAM 256 MB Geforce go 6150 PCI-X graphics 80 GB SATA hard drive 8x DVD+/-RW DL with light scribe 802.11 b/g wireless I started out with ubuntu 6.10 and the live CD runs (slowly but that I expected since it is running off the DVD drive). However, when I installed and rebooted I got a strange problem. I don't get any errors or messages at all. When X starts the screen goes completely blank and then slowly starts to "burn" up from the bottom. The pattern looks almost like the screen is burning from the inside out. In the live CD the ethernet works just fine so I am not sure what the difference really is. I then went with red hat which installed and booted up into X. The problem there was I did not have ethernet. I tried the different network config commands that I found on-line but nothing seems to work. I also tried slackware with simular results. The last distro I tried was Gentoo and no matter what I did with compiling the kernel I couldn't get past certain areas. At first it hung while trying to look for my USB devices. I got to the point where I just configured them to be modules and not installed to automatically detect. I kept hanging at different areas untill I gave up and am now using knoppix live CD to go on-line. Please help as it has been going on 5 months since I decided to ditch windows. PS. please excuse the spelling. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
