[Ubuntu-US-NM] Got a request to help

[Eric Krieger]

I seem to recall seeing several thread on the Ubuntu forum about this 
issue which has to do with the Video Driver for the GeForce 7000.

Have you tried booting to the Live CD in SAFE Graphic's mode?  If not 
try that...

Otherwise I would try to install using the Ubuntu 7.10 Alternate CD...

Read this thread....

 Download the "alternate"  iso.

http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/releases/gutsy/ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso

You'll need to Install in Text or Safe Graphics mode.   Once installed 
you'll need to download the NVIDIA Drivers for linux.

Eric




DThomas at metrocourt.state.nm.us wrote:
>
> I got a request for some help for a person named Michael, his question 
> is this
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks in advance for the assistance. I currently have Vista on my laptop.
>
> Aspire 5520-5912
> AMD Turlon 64x2 Mobile Technology
> NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
> Signal Up Wireless
> 160GB HD
>
> I don't want Vista. I just don't like it. I really want to get away 
> from Microsoft and go totally to Linux Ubuntu. I created the CD from 
> the iso file and I checked the install CD and no errors. I'm trying to 
> install the 64 bit version 7.10, but I'm getting the HAL Status 13 
> message. If anyone needs output like using 'dmesg', let me know how to 
> get this for you for troubleshooting and I will.
>
> Let me know if you need more info.
>
> Thanks again for the assistance.
>
>
>
> Any ideas oh Ubuntu gurus?
>
> David Thomas