2007-08-29, 16:28
#1
Det är så att jag försöker installera ubuntu på min laptop men det blir ett antal fel, kommer inte ens in på os:et, har lyckats att installera det dock. Sökte runt lite på laptopens namn och fann denna guide.
Well, it’s all configured and working now, with a little fiddling, a lot of reading and the kind help of the Ubuntu community. Here’s what I had to do to make my Compaq laptop work, both with video and with wireless networking.
Video
The first sticking point. To make this work, you need to add the directive
vga=792
to the end of the boot command. When you first boot the live CD, press F6 and add that command at the end of the line. This will let you boot into the graphical shell.
You will need to do this later to the grub bootloader menu in /boot/grub/menu.lst - simply add the directive to the end of the kernel boot command. That’s it, it all worked from there. Some minor issues with the NVIDIA drivers, desktop effects and Beryl, so I’m using none of those. I’m going to try the newly released NVIDIA drivers over the weekend.
Wireless
The second sticking point, and something that was giving me nightmares for ages. I got wireless working on the Broadcom 4311 that’s built in to the point where it would see other people’s access points, but not mine.
In the end, it was a post by Pichulines on the Ubuntu forums that solved my problem. He suggested following the Broadcom BCM4311 rev 01 (ndiswrapper) installation guide. So, I followed this very carefully, except that I used the latest 1.43 ndiswrapper instead of the 1.35 version documented in the guide.
After the reboot stage, everything worked perfectly. I could see and connect to my wireless access point using WPA and I could roam wirelessly.
Moving Along
Now all that’s left to do is to finish fiddling with the setup. I need to look at various things like reconfiguring the window manager (I’m using the default Gnome, but I may switch to KDE or Enlightenment), and I need to get little things in place like proper Beryl support (I love the multiple desktops on a cube - incredibly useful when you don’t have multiple monitors), and I would really like a Mac-like toolbar, something I got used to on my work PC, although it’s not critical.
Hopefully this will help those who have been having the same problems.
Har lyckats med det första steget men när det kommer till det andra blir det problem.
Förstår inte riktigt detta. "/boot/grub/menu.lst - simply add the directive to the end of the kernel boot command."
Har prövat att gå in på recovery mode och skrivit in /boot/grub/menu.lst men får permisson denied, varför blir det så? Och vad ska jag göra sen?
Väldigt tacksam för svar.
Edit: Jag är inloggad som root. Eller åtminstone står det root, mitt, namn + några tecken
Guiden är också just för denna laptop modellen
Well, it’s all configured and working now, with a little fiddling, a lot of reading and the kind help of the Ubuntu community. Here’s what I had to do to make my Compaq laptop work, both with video and with wireless networking.
Video
The first sticking point. To make this work, you need to add the directive
vga=792
to the end of the boot command. When you first boot the live CD, press F6 and add that command at the end of the line. This will let you boot into the graphical shell.
You will need to do this later to the grub bootloader menu in /boot/grub/menu.lst - simply add the directive to the end of the kernel boot command. That’s it, it all worked from there. Some minor issues with the NVIDIA drivers, desktop effects and Beryl, so I’m using none of those. I’m going to try the newly released NVIDIA drivers over the weekend.
Wireless
The second sticking point, and something that was giving me nightmares for ages. I got wireless working on the Broadcom 4311 that’s built in to the point where it would see other people’s access points, but not mine.
In the end, it was a post by Pichulines on the Ubuntu forums that solved my problem. He suggested following the Broadcom BCM4311 rev 01 (ndiswrapper) installation guide. So, I followed this very carefully, except that I used the latest 1.43 ndiswrapper instead of the 1.35 version documented in the guide.
After the reboot stage, everything worked perfectly. I could see and connect to my wireless access point using WPA and I could roam wirelessly.
Moving Along
Now all that’s left to do is to finish fiddling with the setup. I need to look at various things like reconfiguring the window manager (I’m using the default Gnome, but I may switch to KDE or Enlightenment), and I need to get little things in place like proper Beryl support (I love the multiple desktops on a cube - incredibly useful when you don’t have multiple monitors), and I would really like a Mac-like toolbar, something I got used to on my work PC, although it’s not critical.
Hopefully this will help those who have been having the same problems.
Har lyckats med det första steget men när det kommer till det andra blir det problem.
Förstår inte riktigt detta. "/boot/grub/menu.lst - simply add the directive to the end of the kernel boot command."
Har prövat att gå in på recovery mode och skrivit in /boot/grub/menu.lst men får permisson denied, varför blir det så? Och vad ska jag göra sen?
Väldigt tacksam för svar.
Edit: Jag är inloggad som root. Eller åtminstone står det root, mitt, namn + några tecken
Guiden är också just för denna laptop modellen
Tackar för hjälpen.
