terry_gardener
August 16th, 2010, 04:44 PM
my next door neighbour has a dell optiplex gx270 and wanted ubuntu installing.
hardware:
1gb ram
p4 2.4 (i think)
intel 82865g onboard graphics.
40gb HDD
i tried the live cd and it froze on bootup, so i thought it might not be enough ram as the case sticker said 512mb ram.
so i booted the minimum install cd and installed ubuntu desktop on it and then rebooted, when it boots i get grub and then screen will either do 1 of 2 things.
1. i get another flashing cursor in top left corner and then cursor stops flashing and then nothing happens at all.
2. then screen will go black and nothing will show at all.
i have tried updating the BIOS, adding i915.modeset=0 to grub, didn't work either.
also couldn't find the xorg.conf under /etc/X11 to change driver to vesa.
after several reboots atleast 30 since the check disk think showed and then it froze again. it booted correctly so i tried the latest intel driver from xorg edgers ppa.
rebooted and still the same thing happens. tried 2 different installs now and get same results.
i have had to put winxp on it so he can atleast use it, but this will run out in 30 days unless he decides to buy it.
any ideas
hardware:
1gb ram
p4 2.4 (i think)
intel 82865g onboard graphics.
40gb HDD
i tried the live cd and it froze on bootup, so i thought it might not be enough ram as the case sticker said 512mb ram.
so i booted the minimum install cd and installed ubuntu desktop on it and then rebooted, when it boots i get grub and then screen will either do 1 of 2 things.
1. i get another flashing cursor in top left corner and then cursor stops flashing and then nothing happens at all.
2. then screen will go black and nothing will show at all.
i have tried updating the BIOS, adding i915.modeset=0 to grub, didn't work either.
also couldn't find the xorg.conf under /etc/X11 to change driver to vesa.
after several reboots atleast 30 since the check disk think showed and then it froze again. it booted correctly so i tried the latest intel driver from xorg edgers ppa.
rebooted and still the same thing happens. tried 2 different installs now and get same results.
i have had to put winxp on it so he can atleast use it, but this will run out in 30 days unless he decides to buy it.
any ideas