[Bug 231455] Re: [intrepid] Ubuntu 8.10 will not boot Live on IBM ThinkPad A21p - CPU 1 soft lockup

2008-12-05 Thread Socrates470BC
@CalcProgrammer: Thanks for all of your help. I have a system than I can use with the open office application that will boot up in only a couple of minutes. I can use Ubunto , but I will not be able to connect to anything via a wireless connection.

[Bug 231455] Re: [intrepid] Ubuntu 8.10 will not boot Live on IBM ThinkPad A21p - CPU 1 soft lockup

2008-12-04 Thread Socrates470BC
@CalcProgrammer: Using installed version 8.04.1, I managed to copy your xorg.conf file. I then shutdown the system and rebooted. Screen now working fine on 8.04.1 I am not sure about updating to 8.10 until I can figure out what is going on. Looking at the bottom of the laptop, there appears to

[Bug 231455] Re: [intrepid] Ubuntu 8.10 will not boot Live on IBM ThinkPad A21p - CPU 1 soft lockup

2008-12-04 Thread Socrates470BC
@CalcProgrammer: I have the full combo card. System - Administration - Hardware Drivers Window states: No proprietory drivers are in use on this system. (No options to perform a scan) I did download ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz to my windows xp machine and I do have the WG511v2.INF file on the

[Bug 231455] Re: [intrepid] Ubuntu 8.10 will not boot Live on IBM ThinkPad A21p - CPU 1 soft lockup

2008-12-04 Thread Socrates470BC
The ethernet part worked when windows 2000 was installed, but I have no wired ethernet connection available when using the laptop, only wireless. I did an iwconfig, and got: lo no wireless connections eth0 no wireless connections rfd0 no wireless connections The WG511 is an 801.2b/g wireless PC

[Bug 231455] Re: ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems

2008-12-03 Thread Socrates470BC
Could not install Ubuntu 8.10 or 8.04 on my IBM Thinkpad A21p Laptop. The screen appears in three segments, I cannot see which options to select, or see how to fix this. My screen has a 1600x 1200 resolution. I also tried Centos 5.2, but this has the same problem. Even worse, I overwrote

[Bug 231455] Re: ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems

2008-12-03 Thread Socrates470BC
First: remember that 8.10 will not install at all because of the [258.772014]BUG: soft lockup -CPU #0 stuck for 61s ! problem. Second: although you may know all the ins and outs of this system, I was attracted to Ubunto because of ease of use. What appears to be required is not for novices.

[Bug 231455] Re: ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems

2008-12-03 Thread Socrates470BC
Note: I had to use 8.04.1 due to other problems with 8.10 I also had to $ cp glxinfo.log /media/DISKETTE before uploading the file to you ** Attachment added: A:\glxinfo.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20191435/A%3A%5Cglxinfo.log -- ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems

[Bug 231455] Re: ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems

2008-12-03 Thread Socrates470BC
lspci.log attached ** Attachment added: A:\lspci.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20191456/A%3A%5Clspci.log -- ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231455 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 231455] Re: ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems

2008-12-03 Thread Socrates470BC
@teej: I have the problem described in this thread with 8.04.1 I have additional problems with 8.10 which prevents me using it at all. -- ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231455 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 231455] Re: ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems

2008-12-03 Thread Socrates470BC
x11.tgz attached ** Attachment added: A:\x11.tgz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20192056/A%3A%5Cx11.tgz -- ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231455 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 231455] Re: ThinkPad A21p - Screen Resolution Problems

2008-12-03 Thread Socrates470BC
@Michael: It appears that you are suggesting that the bug is invalid because you can't figure out the solution. The bug (not being able to view the screen properly) makes the system very difficult to operate and almost impossible to provide good diagnostic information, but please be assured that

[Bug 231455] Re: [intrepid] Ubuntu 8.10 will not boot Live on IBM ThinkPad A21p

2008-12-03 Thread Socrates470BC
I noted that canonical have a place in the UK. Would it be helpful if I sent my PC to the UK office and let them se the problems first hand. This would allow them to check both problems with both 8.04.1 and 8.10 and then return the PC to me, hopefully with a working version of the Latest Ubunto.

[Bug 231455] Re: [intrepid] Ubuntu 8.10 will not boot Live on IBM ThinkPad A21p

2008-12-03 Thread Socrates470BC
Using Ubuntu 8.10, all I can get is the following is a bunch of error messages. See Picture at: http://www.ratingsworld.co.uk/public/Ubuntu4.jpg -- [intrepid] Ubuntu 8.10 will not boot Live on IBM ThinkPad A21p https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231455 You received this bug notification because