I suggest you boot up your laptop using Knoppix. My new Toshiba (!) laptop has an "ATi Radeon Xpress 200M" video card, in addition to ATi USB, ATi IDE, in short, everything except pccard, firewire. I have been battling with this laptop for a week now. I have it running -- with hiccups -- Debian sid, i.e. unstable, but the emphasis is on unstable.
The only way I could make make the video work was by using the "vesa" xserver. Kubuntu, Suse did not provide a usable system. Also take a look at what I found on while googling for solutions: http://www.google.ca/linux?hl=en&q=%22ati+technologies%22+5a31&btnG=Search&meta= HTH, Hendrik Schaink D Bhardwaj wrote: > 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 > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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 -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions & Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 "The Vision: We are the partners of choice for companies and organizations that share our commitment to creating a world that is truly wise, courageous, prosperous, innovative, inclusive, sustainable and humane." --Ruben Nelson GPG Fingerprint: 1371 0927 8C3C 831F A838 C312 68BC F5DB 010D F3D7 _______________________________________________ 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
