Hi Jason, I suggest you boot into Edgy and when your screen goes black, switch to a virtual console with ctrl-alt-F1 and log in. 1. Copy the files you need for a bug report: cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /var/log/Xorg.0.log $HOME/Desktop/ 2. Edit your xorg.conf to use the "vesa" driver instead of "nv" in the "Device" section: sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf 3. Restart X sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart Now X should work (but be a little sluggish). 4. Report a bug on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+filebug and attach the two files that you copied to the desktop in step (1) ! 5. If you need more help, please open a support ticket on https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addticket
There is also the closed-source driver for Nvidia cards called "nvidia", it's in the "envy" package (in Universe?), but don't ask me about that. I have almost no experience with AMD64x2, but I once saw a startup problem on it and it was solved by adding "nolapic" to the boot parameters. Hope this helps, Tormod On 1/31/07, Jason Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
