Have some problems installing Ubuntu

[Paul Williams]

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 13:58 +0100, sim proctor wrote:
> I had a similar problem with one of my computers. When I tried to
> install Dapper Drake, the installation stalled at the keyboard
> configuration stage. I eventually got round it by installing Breezy
> Badger and updating online.
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 04:08:57 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: ikram ul-haq <ikramulhaq389 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Have some problem installing ubuntu
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Message-ID: <20061009110857.96502.qmail at web56301.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> > 
> > hi to everybody
> >                      I tried to install ubuntu, but after booting from cd and giving command to install .selecting the language option my monitor goes blank,showing no picture what so ever but cpu is running. Is there some problem with my vga card or monitor
> > or i used the wrong way to install, can somebody helps me fixing this problem.my computer specification are under
> > Intel celeron processor 2.0 ghz on Asus (p4sdr) motherboard  and Ram 512 mbyte
> > chipset sis650 and vga is sis 650(64 mb shared memory).
> >                                                                                    Thanks
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At the end of the command to install, add this text: vga=771
SiS makes crappy cards, and you have to specify the monitor specs, or it
won't recognize it.

Thanks,
Paul Williams (paul at smoothweb.net) | Jabber: pwill at jabber.org
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