On Dec 20, 2007 4:59 PM, Tim Wilson <<a href="mailto:tim_linux@wilson-home.com">tim_linux@wilson-home.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I mentioned to a couple people last night that I was having problems getting my new laptop to boot KUbuntu 7.10. I discovered that if I take out the "quiet" and "splash" boot options, and add "vga=771" (after the "--"), it boots off the DVD. So at least there is partial success. For the record, it is an HP dv9408nr laptop. Supposedly, there are XP driver issues with some of the newer (read: loaded with Vista) HP Laptops. If I get it to install, this could be another example where Linux surpasses XP for hardware support. The next trick is I want to install KUbuntu to my external USB hard drive (at least until I figure out how to get the drive repartitioned, and get Vista to be happy with it). Ken, didn't you have issues getting Vista and Ubuntu to play well together?
<br></blockquote><div><br><br>My brother has a similar model notebook. It has the newer intel/realtek HD audio chipset. If yours is the same you'll have problems with the sound even in 7.10. To fix this, install the following package:
<br><br><font size="3">linux-backports-modules</font><br></div></div><br>then from a terminal run the program alsamixer and make sure the outputs are not muted. I'm not sure if your computer is the one that has the shiny little finger slider thing for the volume control... if so, it works fine, though the LEDs may not necessarily work the same way they do in Vista. The next release of Ubuntu/Kubuntu will have alsa
1.0.15 which has better support for this newer chipset. If you experience the problem where the sound works fine for 15 min then progressively gets louder over the course of about 2 min until year ears start bleeding, just ignore it, it's your imagination.
<br><br>We didn't have any trouble getting vista and Ubuntu to dual boot. As a matter of fact, his computer out of the box had a funny issue with the hard drive capacity showing wrong and disk i/o being funky... something to do with the partition table. After we installed Ubuntu, Vista actually recognized the proper disk capacity and worked better! I'm not 100% sure but we may have actually downloaded the gparted cd and used it to create the disk partitions, since its version of gparted doesn't hide the info/warning messages. (I may be confusing his case with another computer, but if (K)Ubuntu gives you a really general "there may be a problem, are you sure you want to continue" dialog, say no and use the gparted disk)
<br><br>On my computer, I use Linux 95+% of the time and Vista hardly ever. Therefore I split my 120G hard drive so that 25G went to Vista and the rest to Ubuntu. (25 for / and the rest for /home) Then I used the ext IFS driver for Windows and mounted the ext2/3 drive in Vista so that I can see my linux home directory as a drive in Windows. It works perfectly. You can use it just like a FAT32 or NTFS drive, so I keep all my files on the linux drive so I can get to them wherever I'm at.
<a href="http://www.fs-driver.org/">http://www.fs-driver.org/</a><br><br>If you're a kubuntu fan, you may want to consider going straight to Hardy, Kubuntu 8.04. The alpha 2 release may be out tomorrow (Friday) and if not, soon. The benefit of
8.04 is that it will have KDE4. I'll warn you, KDE4 still is a little rough (which is why the release is alpha), but supposedly its going to be quite an improvement, and from my first impression, it's pretty sharp. I typically upgrade around the alpha2 release and its usable and its fun to see it take shape. (I don't use kubuntu full time but I have kde installed for testing purposes)
<br><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode