[brlug-general] Dell chooses Ubuntu

[Richards Jr, Edward C.]

I can't get it (either i386 or AMD 64 versions) to run on my laptop or desktop machines. Both have nVidia video cards. It will only boot the live CD in "safe video" mode and then after the installation completes and upon reboot, in the case of the laptop (nVidia 6150), the screen just morphs into a bunch of smeared colors and the desktop machine (nVidia 6200), I get to the login screen, log in and it drops me to command line as says something about it can't start the desktop or some such error message. I've been running SimplyMepis, Sabayon, and all versions of Xandros on the laptop and Xandros Professional and KnoppMyth on the desktop machine, all without incident. 
 
Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net]On Behalf Of Andrew Baudouin
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:47 AM
To: general at brlug.net
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Dell chooses Ubuntu


Ubuntu has the most hardware support, popularity, and commitment to the desktop space right now.  I was amazed to install Feisty and have my PVR-150 working without doing anything in 64-bit mode .



On 5/1/07, Joe Fruchey < jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote: 

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8661763902.html

Boy, I hope this goes well. I would so love to see some major Linux
desktop proliferation. But then, I'm posting this to a LUG list, so 
that's a given, right?!

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