Laptop Install Help

[Jonathan Romero]

Agreed, try using a modern livecd for a bit and see what happens.  Damn
Small Linux and the Ubuntu LiveCD, along with Knoppix.

Soulds like hardware though.

On 3/16/06, Tod Merley <todbot88 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3/15/06, david burkhard <dave8742 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Hello all,
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> > I have come across a problem with installing Ubuntu on
> > a new laptop.  The laptop is an Acer Aspire 5021 WLMi.
> > I feel that I missed somthing important somewhere,
> > but just don't know what it is.  The issue that I am
> > having is that the laptop just powers off during the
> > Ubuntu installation process.  I got an issue with
> > having to specify "vga=771" at the start of the
> > install.  But trying to install 5.10 (both 64-bit and
> > then 32-bit) the laptop powers off at random times but
> > never gets much past the start of loading packages.
> > Being worried about possible hardware problems with
> > the machine, I then got out older versions of Linux
> > and found that Ubuntu 4.10 (32-bit) has the same
> > problem although it gets past the reboot during the
> > install, asks for a user name and then asks for
> > allowable video modes and at a point shortly after
> > that it powers off.  The install has not progressed
> > far enough to allow booting the machine up in Ubuntu.
> > This 4.10 version powered off at the same point
> > several times in a row.  Then I tried RedHat 7.1 (very
> > old) and it installed.  Finally I worked my way up to
> > Fedora 4 (32-bit) and it installed without any issues.
> >
> > So with a little trial and error, it appears that
> > Ubuntu doesn't like this laptop where other
> > (RedHat/Fedora) linux distributions do.  Does anyone
> > out there have any idea what I might try to get Ubuntu
> > installed on this machine ?  (I would really prefer to
> > go to Ubuntu, if possible.)
> >
> > Thanks...
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> Hi David,
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> A couple of thoughts (after reading Clives response).  Look at the
> successful FC4 xorg.conf file and use it to make a similar video
> configuration (see if you can select the horizontal and vertical retrace and
> other parameters during the install process to be the same as those chosen
> by FC4).  Breezy was a bit unstable on our Inspiron 8100 until I did just
> that.
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> In your CMOS setup, see if you can lock the laptop into a slower clock
> rate (CPU clock rate).  It might some sort of clock rate control problem.
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> Try live Knoppix and check out the setup (video, power management, etc.)
> see where the two differ.
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> Good Hunting!
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> Tod
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