----- Forwarded message from "Laura J. Portscheller" <STARFIRE@uwyo.edu> ----- forwarding to the list for all to see. please reply to the list and not to me personally. thanks >To: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> >From: "Laura J. Portscheller" <STARFIRE@uwyo.edu> >Subject: RE: New User Information Request >The major problem with fc6 was that i could get no graphical display. After install (via graphical install process which seems to say to me that it should have been able to continue graphical interface) I would have command line only. After installing graphics card drivers and trying a host of adjustments recommended by folks on the fedora forums, I could get no graphica interface, so no desktop. its hard to believe that it failed utterly. did anyone have you try the vesa driver? that works with pretty much everything. >nvidia gforce Go 6150, Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3500+, FUJITSU MGV2100BH PL hard drives, ACPI Multiprocessor PC,HDAUDIO Soft Data Fax Modem with SmartCP,1394 Net Adapter, Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN, NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller, support for nvidia cards seems to be pretty good, but whether that extends to laptops is a mystery. I would try to boot with a recent knoppix disk. If you can get a gui from that, then its a good bet you will with debian. A -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com] Sent: Wed 12/20/2006 4:03 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: New User Information Request >>On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:30:51PM -0700, Laura J. Portscheller wrote: >>> I am very new to linux. I have used it to a minimal extent and like it, but have no experience in system administration and all the many technical matters involved with it. I want to install linux on my laptop and want to make sure that there are no compatibility problems with your product. I first tried to install fedora core 6 and it would not operate properly, even with the attempts to resolve the matter by very experienced users. I wanted to make sure that your product will be completely compatible with my computer. I have a new HP dv9000 17 inch widescreen laptop with 2 100GB hard drives, and nvidia gforce praphics card, bluetooth, and an AMD processor. Thanks >>havving made some meager attempts to install linux on a couple older >>laptops, I can say it is not easy. First stop has got to be: >>www.linux-laptops.net >>you've had trouble with fc6... what sort of trouble? details on what >>the problems were would help us a lot. >>also, a complete listing of the hardware would be good to. It is >>likely that you could get linux installed and operating, but you will >>likely *not* get all the hardware working as well as it should. >>.02 >>good luck. >>A
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