Is it just me? Am I cursed?
Ubuntu Linux 6.06 has been a lot in the news lately, both before and after its' last Tuesday release. I've seen good reviews and have heard enthusiastic reports about the 32 bit version. Information about the version for the AMD Athlon 64 has been a bit less easy to come by so I decided to download a copy of both Ubuntu and Kubuntu (the KDE interfaced version of Ubuntu) and give them a try on a year old Compaq I have which features an AMD Athlon 64 CPU at home on an ASUSTek Salmon 1.04 mother board, a 200 Gigabyte hard drive, and 960 Megabytes of RAM. The display adapter is an SiS 760 running an HP vs 17 monitor.
And guess what? It won't run. The live CD gets just started and goes to "Configuring some drivers" and just stops. Well, all except once when it started repeatedly, and rapidly, filling the screen with error messages that flashed by so quickly that they weren't readable.
Anyone have similar experiences with Ubuntu 6.06 or any ideas about what is going on here? Is the problem the display adapter?
Incidentally, Ubuntu 6.06 runs beautifully on my six year old Compaq Presario 5000 desktop. It also runs on an HP Pavilion ze4904 laptop but doesn't run a Netgear WG511T Wireless card on the laptop.
-oldster
And guess what? It won't run. The live CD gets just started and goes to "Configuring some drivers" and just stops. Well, all except once when it started repeatedly, and rapidly, filling the screen with error messages that flashed by so quickly that they weren't readable.
Anyone have similar experiences with Ubuntu 6.06 or any ideas about what is going on here? Is the problem the display adapter?
Incidentally, Ubuntu 6.06 runs beautifully on my six year old Compaq Presario 5000 desktop. It also runs on an HP Pavilion ze4904 laptop but doesn't run a Netgear WG511T Wireless card on the laptop.
-oldster
posted by Bill at 4:50 AM
2 Comments:
I have that same problem on a Intel P3, 533mhz machine which has an ATI Geforce 2 card, 256mb ram.
I tried redownloading and burning 2 more copies. Same error. Eventually, I just went back to the Beta2 CD and redownloaded all the updates.
I'm still left scratching my head wondering what happened.
Yes, this happened to me too (though I don't recall the version I downloaded but it was only 2-3 weeks ago). My computer is an Asus P4PE with an Intel P4 2.53GHz and an ATI Radeon 9700 with other parts...
It started to boot up but pretth much got to a point where it hung and didn't go any farther.
I did not try downloading from another site or reburning the ISO which might help.
I'll wait a version or two and try again.
I have not had the same issues with Damn Small Linux or Knoppix which boot up fine.
Kevin
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