[CLUG] Ubuntu fails install on nVidia Geforce4

[Peter Flynn]

Michael Sharpe wrote:
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Ta.

> I cant remember in detail how i got the vesa up and running but i know
> the ubuntu community was the way forward. 

I suspect it's been long enough for the docs and discussions to have 
fallen to the bottom of the retrievable heap.

> And I assume you tried doing dhclient eth0 for the net i/f??
> If you know what the mask and range are perhaps you could just try an
> unused ip or one thats outside the range of the dhcp server if for
> example its only serving up 1-100 addresses??

It's my own network, so that would be easy if I could get the system to 
talk down the eth0 piece of wet string. dhclient just quits right back 
to the prompt.

> Oddly I left Fedora for pretty much the same RPM hell, even with yum.

I have some RHEL servers at work running yum. They're OK, but the moment 
you want some utility that RH say ought not to be on a server, you're 
screwed.

> Apparently there are always issues with distro u/g no matter the flavour
> and if your going back more than one release it is pushing it a
> little :-) 

This particular one need never have arisen if they'd bothered to test 
it. Geforce4 cards are pretty common...

> So if your going to blank it why not just try the new ubuntu anyway from
> a fresh install.  

Already tried. 9.04 has the same problem: no driver, no dice. Hangs hard 
  immediately the login page comes up.

> Worse comes to worse your going to be putting Fedora on anyway, right??

I'll avoid that like the plague until I decide Ubuntu won't run at all.
I can live with booting F11 from the CD until then, and ssh'ing to 
another machine to do work.

Thanks for all your help.

///Peter