Anyone has Installation problem like me?

[mitnguye]

Hi everyone,


I have spent 3 days trying to install Kubuntu 7 on my laptop.
This is my laptop specs: 1.8GHz centrino, 256 Mb dedicated ATI mobility radeon video card, 1.5 GB RAM, 100 GB HDD.

I have spent 3 days trying to install Kubuntu 7 on my laptop. i did the following since Kubuntu cannot read my video card. sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. then selected VESA. finally, i typed startx but the computer gave me a fatal error message. I also tried sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx; it worked but i do not know what to do next.


Any help ? >

[lowey23]

Re: Anyone has Installation problem like me?

G'day mitnguye,

Try this link

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3086801.0
or this one

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.12.10.html

You should be able to get enough info to get you going.

[Rog131]

Re: Anyone has Installation problem like me?

I have spent 3 days trying to install Kubuntu 7 on my laptop. i did the following since Kubuntu cannot read my video card. sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. then selected VESA. finally, i typed startx but the computer gave me a fatal error message. I also tried sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx; it worked but i do not know what to do next.

You computer should work with vesa driver.

What was the " fatal error message" ?


Check what is wrong:
Xorg.0.log is log file for X Windowing Server. It is in /var/log/.

In text mode:

:~$ nano /var/log/Xorg.0.log

"nano is a small, free and friendly editor".

Markers in the Xorg.0.log

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

Just looking errors:

:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)"

Just looking warnings:

:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(WW)"

That is from:
Topic: HOWTO : Repairing xorg.conf
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3082808.0