Ubuntu Linux install
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I installed Ubuntu Linux[1] on both a laptop and my AMD64 FrankenDawg machine. There were no issues at all with the laptop. The one CD install is a little misleading because you need to spend a lot of time updating afterwards, but I think most people would rather do that than download and burn 3-6 CDs. I installed the AMD64 version on my desktop machine, but ended up installing the regular version as some of the packages I wanted to install appeared not to be available in 64-bit versions.
My ATI All-In-Wonder X600 gave me trouble. I couldn't get to the login screen. I had to use the instructions below to install a different drivers, then go to ATI's site and install the proper driver
These instructions came from the Ubuntu forums[1:1]:
- Reboot, but don't log in to the graphical screen (GDM)
- Switch to a console (CTRL+ALT+F1 say) Login as yourself
cd /etc/X11 sudo cp -p xorg.cong xorg.conf.bak- edit xorg.conf e.g. with vi
sudo vi xorg.conf - Find the line that has "Driver ..." (e.g. for "ati") Change the driver to "vesa"
- In "vi" : "x" will delete a char "i" to go to insert mode type the change ESC back to command mode :wq (i.e. colon,w,q) to quit
- restart GDM by going :
- CTRL+ALT+F7 - back to login screen GDM CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE - to restart GDM/X
- Try and log in