problem starting X (was: Re: Problems with bootable cd's)

[Rene Richard van Hassel]

Hellow Eberhard,


evrything works fine at home! In the evening I searched (Google)
for nvidia and saw instructions how to install it.
Later I saw also a site on Ubuntu with instructions of HowTo do it.
Also instructions of how to get with apt-get a greater range 
of possibilities to get packages, for instance jre! (java of sun).
I should like to keep on this list, but I'm getting too much 
mails (more then 150 on a day), it's for me too much time to look at
them. I will unsubscribe me from this list, sorry.
But thanks for the help of the ubuntu-community, 
let's keep this help.
Is there not a website, to read these questions, and to
react if possible? My mailbox is getting too much mails,


greetings,


Rene'




On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 13:11 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Hi Rene,
> 
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:35:54 +0200
> Rene Richard van Hassel <r.r.v.hassel at tue.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Hoi Eberhard,
> > 
> > 
> > indeed I have thrown them away. The reason for this is, that 
> > on another place, I'm working fine with Ubuntu, also my laptop
> > is working without problems under Ubuntu and the installations
> > on these machines was without any problems.
> great! imho this indicates, that the cd(s) are ok, while some
> computers may have problems with correctly reading and/or
> booting from it. 
> 
> [...]
> > >From the Redhat installation, I have nothing kept as
> > >reference,
> > only the home-directory is put on another disk. Indeed 
> > stupid, but I thought that the installation should be simple,
> > just as it had gone on the other PC and laptop.
> 
> You have any reason to be happy. Since your home directory
> usually contains all your relevant userdata and (possibly)
> your userspecific application settings. 
> 
> So you can always install
> anything from scratch without loosing your /home/username. 
> 
> > 
> > X is not going well: I mean that I think that the driver of
> > my graphic card is not found, so the xserver is not doing what
> > it has to do. Some blus screen with $$$$ and other things, but
> > not what I expected.
> > 
> > Problem here is that I have no idea how to get contact with 
> > internet with the line-commands. (I have no screen, where I
> > can click or otherwise.)
> That could be done and it is not difficult, but it is dependant
> on how you connect to the internet, i.e via network, modem, isdn,
> dsl, wlan.....you name it.
> 
> As your CD apparently now is working, but Internet is not, imho
> it would be much easier for you to install from there. 
> 
> Use "sudo aptitude", which is a sort of graphical
> tool for the text console that simplifies package management.
> Imho it is sort of awkward to use for "graphical
> people", but it surely does a great job, i.e it resolves any
> dependancy issues nicely for you and much more.
> 
> Note: The driver install (if it works ok) will not be all there
> is to do. The next step will be to make your X11
> aware that you want to use the nv driver. This is easy:
> "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and simpy follow the
> prompts on the screens, let anything as it is until you choose
> the X "driver", which is "nv" or "nvidia", I believe. 
> The only other thing you should take care of is your screen
> resolution and the monitor data, if your monitor is not
> automatically recognized via DPMS.
> > 
> > What is the nvidia driver? I will try your suggestion at the
> > evening, now I cann't do it.
> 
> You said, you have a geforce graphics Adapter in your Computer.
> Btw: "lspci" or maybe "lspci | grep VGA" will tell you some
> things about what Linux thinks of the hardware you are using. 
> 
> Now, Nvidia is the (original) manufacturer of Geforce Cards.
> There are others manufacturing Geforce cards, ex. MSI, but all
> of them use the Nvidia "Geforce" chipset and basic design.
> Consequently, when having a "Geforce" Card, you could try to use
> the Nvidia Driver and you will be successfull in most cases.
> 
> If not, there are always other possibilities like 
> framebuffer, vesa..., but I suggest to do one thing
> after the other. 
> 
> > 
> > I'm using latex very much and all kind off packages of it,
> > these I have to find and install.
> 
> No problem, (nearly) anything of this is on Ubuntu.
> Anything else is easily availble on the web.
> 
> > 
> > There are also other programs I have to search and install.
> > Till now this was going easy, so I hope at home also???
> 
> sure, keep up the good work
> > 
> > Thanks for your reaction,
> > 
> you're wellcome. Also I regret all the hassle that you are
> having. As soon as X and Internet will be working, my guess is
> you will be amazed how much easier Ubuntu actually is, even if
> the beginning of your love with ubuntu showed
> some, hmmm... room for improvement. ;-)))
> 
> kind regards
> Eberhard
> 
> 
>