[Discuss] The T61p meets Kubuntu

[Michael]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 11:18 -0800, Steven Kurylo wrote:

> >     The final RC for Gutsy introduced a bug which caused the nVidia
> > driver to be broken for some of their latest cards. Various creative
> > ways to get around this issue are blogged about, but their effectiveness
> > is variable. I tried about six different methods to get it onto the
> > system, each ending with a brick. So far, the Ubuntu folks aren't
> > talking much.
> 
> So why don't you try an older version of Ubuntu?  Or an earlier RC?
> 
> > The solution is actually pretty simple. Modify your
> > xorg.conf file to use vesa, not whatever flavour of nVidia driver it
> > currently points to. The trick seems to be doing this while typing into
> > a brick.
> 
> Or boot into single user mode and fix your xorg file.
> 


    Thanks for the suggestions. For whatever reason 7.04 also came up
black screen, and I wasn't willing to head into my archive of 6.xx
ISO's. And based on my limited knowledge of single user mode, would I be
wrong to assume you must first have actually installed the system? My
problem was that I couldn't get as far as beginning the install process.
The order was ... system echo, Kubuntu splash, system echo, brick.
Sometimes I got as far x booting, but then brick.

    Michael.