Sorry for the delayed response. This is a new Compaq laptop, Turin64, ATI video. I tried Suse,Mandriva, Linspire,Ubuntu, Kubuntu. All resulted in unique problems. Linspire failed miserably. (x86 versions not 64bit) I prefer to load Kubuntu if I can. I don't know if the store will take the machine back . Kubuntu - /etc/init.d/kdm restart responded with Stopping KDM, Starting KDM and back to text mode. On reboot,it started to 'hang' at the 'checking battery status' step. Had to hit power off/on.
Should I just buy old/used hardware? Dharam ----- Original Message ----- From: Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:25 pm Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Kubuntu breezy install > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Likely there is a problem with the video drivers. What video card are > you running? > > What happens when you log in as root and then run: > /etc/init.d/kdm restart > > D Bhardwaj wrote: > > The default install finishes in text mode for some odd reason. I > tried 4 times using 2 different 'regular' iso's. Last year when I > installed same, it defaulted to KDE at bootup. > > > > Dharam > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFD0+pHwRXgH3rKGfMRAs3XAJ9Pnzcdw6ZOjWmZz/EEL9L10lIFtwCeNN9F > +jQ1CSpv9xl+Jiqtlr+/pHQ= > =Kn1X > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

