installation on celeron400/intel-i440BX laptop

[Luigi Ponti]

Hello,

I have tried to install Ubuntu 5.10 on my laptop provided with a Celeron 
400 processor, an Intel i-440BX chipset, 150 Mb RAM memory, and a 5 Gb 
IBM travelstar hard disk.

The default installation seems to work fine until the very end when it 
tries to load GNOME. At this stage, there is a speeding wheel on a 
yellow screen that stops moving and nothing more happens.

However when installing just the server version, it does works: I am 
able to login and run applications.

Is there a known fix to this? Is there a way to get the desktop GUI in 
place?

Thanks in advance,

Luigi