malkuth123
January 19th, 2012, 03:09 PM
I have a new machine. I am unable to run the live cd nor install (using wubi). The problem is that I cannot get an X display, therefore am unable to continue installation nor run the GUI for live cd. The machine has winblows installed, and it operates fine.
Machine: HP TS 520-1010
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GT 5xx
If I attempt to boot, I can get progress by using the nomodeset and noapic options on boot. The screen flashes several times and eventually the lightdm process dies. I can get a console by using the ctl/alt/f1 key
From the console (tty) I have run a couple of diagnostics.
lspci reports VGA compatable nVidia Corp GF106 (GeForce GT 555m)
lsmod points drm to nouveau and video to nouveau
The dmesg reports Console Colour VGA 80x25
init: lightdm process terminated with status 1
The Xorg.log reports /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf failed to load module nvidia
drm failed to open device
segfault in libXi.so.6.1
Windows reports the frequency at 60.
I can boot easily into CLI using a standard tty (ctlr/alt/f1) but that is as far as I am able to go. Since setup has not been able to complete, (either live cd or wubi install), I cannot connect the computer to the internet to obtain the nvidia drivers, etc.
I can boot the computer into winblows, so can possibly obtain needed software that way, however, I am clueless as to where to put it so that wubi can make use of it on boot. Note that I cannot boot the wubi installation, because when the lightdm process fails, it causes a reboot of the machine.
Any assistance or further troubleshooting would be greatly appreciated, as I do not want to continue with winblows on this machine.
Machine: HP TS 520-1010
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GT 5xx
If I attempt to boot, I can get progress by using the nomodeset and noapic options on boot. The screen flashes several times and eventually the lightdm process dies. I can get a console by using the ctl/alt/f1 key
From the console (tty) I have run a couple of diagnostics.
lspci reports VGA compatable nVidia Corp GF106 (GeForce GT 555m)
lsmod points drm to nouveau and video to nouveau
The dmesg reports Console Colour VGA 80x25
init: lightdm process terminated with status 1
The Xorg.log reports /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf failed to load module nvidia
drm failed to open device
segfault in libXi.so.6.1
Windows reports the frequency at 60.
I can boot easily into CLI using a standard tty (ctlr/alt/f1) but that is as far as I am able to go. Since setup has not been able to complete, (either live cd or wubi install), I cannot connect the computer to the internet to obtain the nvidia drivers, etc.
I can boot the computer into winblows, so can possibly obtain needed software that way, however, I am clueless as to where to put it so that wubi can make use of it on boot. Note that I cannot boot the wubi installation, because when the lightdm process fails, it causes a reboot of the machine.
Any assistance or further troubleshooting would be greatly appreciated, as I do not want to continue with winblows on this machine.