HP Pavilion dv6119us

[Tormod Volden]

Hi Jason,
I suggest you boot into Edgy and when your screen goes black, switch
to a virtual console with ctrl-alt-F1 and log in.
1. Copy the files you need for a bug report:
 cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /var/log/Xorg.0.log $HOME/Desktop/
2. Edit your xorg.conf to use the "vesa" driver instead of "nv" in the
"Device" section:
 sudo nano  /etc/X11/xorg.conf
3. Restart X
 sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
Now X should work (but be a little sluggish).
4. Report a bug on
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+filebug
and attach the two files that you copied to the desktop in step (1) !
5. If you need more help, please open a support ticket on
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addticket


There is also the closed-source driver for Nvidia cards called "nvidia",
it's in the "envy" package (in Universe?), but don't ask me about that.

I have almost no experience with AMD64x2, but I once saw a startup
problem on it and it was solved by adding "nolapic" to the boot
parameters.

Hope this helps,
Tormod



On 1/31/07, Jason Sherwood <jsherwood1337 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> I have the above notebook computer (HP pavilion
> dv6119us) that I bought back in october of '06 and
> have been trying for almost as long to get different
> distros of linux up and running.  The stats of my
> computer are as follows:
>
> AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-50 running @ 1.8 GHz
> 1024 MB DDR-RAM
> 256 MB Geforce go 6150 PCI-X graphics
> 80 GB SATA hard drive
> 8x DVD+/-RW DL with light scribe
> 802.11 b/g wireless
>
> I started out with ubuntu 6.10 and the live CD runs
> (slowly but that I expected since it is running off
> the DVD drive).  However, when I installed and
> rebooted I got a strange problem.  I don't get any
> errors or messages at all.  When X starts the screen
> goes completely blank and then slowly starts to "burn"
> up from the bottom.  The pattern looks almost like the
> screen is burning from the inside out.  In the live CD
> the ethernet works just fine so I am not sure what the
> difference really is.  I then went with red hat which
> installed and booted up into X.  The problem there was
> I did not have ethernet.  I tried the different
> network config commands that I found on-line but
> nothing seems to work.  I also tried slackware with
> simular results.  The last distro I tried was Gentoo
> and no matter what I did with compiling the kernel I
> couldn't get past certain areas.  At first it hung
> while trying to look for my USB devices.  I got to the
> point where I just configured them to be modules and
> not installed to automatically detect.  I kept hanging
> at different areas untill I gave up and am now using
> knoppix live CD to go on-line.  Please help as it has
> been going on 5 months since I decided to ditch
> windows.
>
> PS.  please excuse the spelling.