Third ask: Breezy won't install

[Bry]

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>> Third time I've asked this, please, anyone out there?
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>> When trying a new install on an old 450Mhz PII after install when I 
>> take out the disk and rebootit looks fine until 71% where it just 
>> stops responding on "configuring xserver-xorg". Just no response.
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>> I've seen this before and thought I'd try with acpi=off but that didnt 
>> help.
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>> Any ideas anyone?
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>> Duncan
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> Hi,
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> Gnome is more than likely a little heavy for that box.
> I suggest you re start your install - this time choose server instead of 
> pressing enter after the Ubuntu logo comes up on the screen.
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> When done, log in and try
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> sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
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> sudo apt-get install gdm
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> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
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> now for kicks reboot the box and see what happens
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> Regards,
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> Paul
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>
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Sorry for not answering sooner but I don't have time to read all the 
posts here and have been avoiding the great debate the last coupe of days:

We have a similiar machine P2 400 that works on ubuntu/gnome but is a 
little sluggish. My husband uses it as a word processor.

It installed OK:
BUT
I replaced an old S3 card (trio) with an ATI starfighter (slightly newer 
vintage);-)

Do you perchance have one of the older ...maybe...S3 cards that haven't 
been supported since XFree86 3.3.6 ?

I Have run into this a couple of times on older machines.

That said  after installing UBUNTU and ABIWORD-gnome

I desinstalled Abiword and installed Xubuntu desktop with Abiword for GTK

Much Snappier.

Again my guess is you might have an unsupported Graphics card.

Bryann