Pavilion zd8000

[Yuki Cuss]

Liam Marshall wrote:

> Ubuntu 5.1x is the distro for me!  I have been searching around for a 
> distro that does all that I want.  This one appears to be it.
>
> I have had trouble with video card compatibility(Mandrake), with sound 
> card(Fedora), Wireless NIC (SUSE)
>
> Something always seemed to make it difficult to make the complete 
> switch to linux
>
> I am a computer teacher at a private Catholic school in Winnipeg 
> Canada.  I administer a K12LTSP server with 40 thin clients.  I use my 
> laptop with a multimedia projector in my lessons.  I was always 
> booting my laptop off the network cause I could not get a fully 
> funtioning linux distro working on the laptop stand alone and be able 
> to access files on the linux server.  Now this one does.  SUSE came 
> close but could not connect to the samba shares for some reason still 
> unexplained. 
>
> Ubuntu does!  and some time this summer I will load a test system with 
> the ltsp version of ubuntu and see how it compares to the fedora 
> flavour of ltsp.  Hopefully it will out perform it!  The fedora 
> version of a terminal server environment still has issues with sound.  
> Anyone know if Ubuntu does? (sound on the thin clients I mean)
>
> Anyway, to make a long story short, the only remaining problem I have 
> is with xserver and my laptop.  I had to go through the installation 
> of ubuntu several times because the first time I used a downloaded 
> edubuntu distro (from two weeks ago)  install went fine, but on 
> reboot, xserver refused to start, asked me to fix it, then restart 
> gdm.  I had no idea how.  then tried ubuntu 5.1x and it went fine, 
> including reboot.  Then did ALL updates, rebooted, and same thing, 
> xserver refused to start, asked me to fix it, then restart gdm.  
> again, no idea how.
>
> finally redid the last type of install, and while running the update 
> program, removed all xserver updates from the list of choices as I had 
> no idea which one hoops me.  I could live with that, except I get a 
> constant nag screen about there being 60 updates waiting every time I 
> boot.  Anyone know or can guess which update is hooping me?  I suspect 
> the ati one, but do not want to take the chance as I now have it set 
> up nice and programs and data loaded.
>
> Help would be appreciated 


Apologies for not answering your questions, but I can't help wondering: 
5.1x? There's only 5.4, 5.10, 6.4, 6.10, (etc..)

I've tested LTSP at my school with Ubuntu, but the client machines I 
booted up weren't connected to an audio device anyway, so I couldn't test.

 - Yuki.