[CLUG] Ubuntu fails install on nVidia Geforce4

[mick sharpe]

Well I am using 9.10 and its cleared a lot of problems, only one new issue
is with my laptop 2 years old with intel graphics randomly crashes, mind you
so does mandriva, fedora etc.  Intel driver in 8.10-9.04 just got worse with
each version.
Couldnt handle compiz, now its a dream, makes my vista loving workmates
drewl everytime i flick the cube complete with reflections :-)
And with 3 days to go to launch if you get it now youll beat the maddening
rush on the servers and still be able to keep it uptodate.

Mick.


Samuel Goldwyn<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_goldwyn.html>
- "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never
wrong."

2009/10/26 Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie>

> 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
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