Borfil's Linux install problem

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Borfil, you have given us an idea about the hardware involved, but I would like to know which version number of K/Ubuntu you are trying to install on that machine?

I do not know if your motherboard has an onboard graphics port, but we should be able to find out if you can tell us the version number on the ASUS motherboard that you have.

I know that many people had some problems with the older versions of Ubuntu because of the Nvidia 7600 drivers.
You can test this out if your motherboard has a built-in graphics chip by changing the bios setting to use the on-board chip / "AUTO" and remove the Nvidia 7600 card and plug the monitor into the graphics connector on the motherboard.

If the OS installs ok then you know that the problem is related to the graphics driver.

If it still does not work then you have at least eliminated the graphics card as them main problem.

Something for you to try if you still want to.

Well the board that I'm using is an Asus P5GZ-MX using an Intel Xeon pentium D dual core CPU.
The board has the following
FSB 800, Dual Ch, DDR2 533/667, VGA integrated, PCI-e x 16, PCI-e x1, Sata 3.0Gb, Gb Lan Green Asus(RohS compliant

other than that all I have put on her has been the Live Creative SC and the Nvidea card. I will try what you say about the card and see what happens.
thanks for the tip. You know Nvedia card are so common that at times you forget that tech is moving so fast that is hard to keep up.

hope that will let you think of something else.
:)

Well it didn't take much searching to find this thread over at the ubuntu forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766219, and specifically this post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...6&postcount=11

Other than that I can't offer much advice, never owned a board with intel or nividia that I've installed linux on, although hopfully some other people around here will be able to offer a bit more help.

I din't chk the forum for the board, because I have two other Asus boards (not P5) and din't had any problem. Din't had any idea that this board is having such problems with linux.
More of an insentive now for me to try to work on a solution. And study more on linux and its component. It might take me a while, but I will try to solve this problem. None of the msg say what is the problem, but all have one thing in commom, they manage to load linux, it just stops once it is reboot. as for version 7.10 does not work on this one iether

Well looks like I got a good hard homework to do.

Thanks. At least now I see I'm not and it is not something wrong with the pc, but what I suspected. Gates dont want competicion. Ha :icon_twisted: :icon_twisted::icon_mad:

But when there is a will there have to be a way!!! :icon_lol: :icon_twisted: :icon_lol:

If you wait another day Intrepid Ibex will be available:
http://www.ubuntu.com/

I can vouch that a lot of compatibility issues are fixed in this release (Well, they are in the beta anyway).