Have you tried the HP specific iso's. Hp laptops have some awkward hardware in them so the community have come up with cd's just for them...http://www.ubuntu.com/download/derivatives/hp?action=show&redirect=support%2Fcustom%2Fhplaptops <div>On 3/14/06, Liam Marshall <<a href="mailto:lsrpm@mts.net">lsrpm@mts.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> How do I tell what version of Ubuntu I am running? I had several versions of Ubuntu downloaded and burnt to cds Both the version of 5.1 Breezy and Dapper Flight 5 that I downloaded yesterday appear to work, but I have to use linux vga=771 in order to run the installation on my laptop. When I do, things appear to go fine until the unmount of installation cd and reboot. At that point I get a message about the xserver failing and would I like to see the output, which I do not understand, then it tells me gdm has been disabled and to fix it and then reenable x. I have no idea how to do that I have an older cd which I thought/think is a prerelease fo 5.1 which does work, I get in and all is fine, until I do a complete update of everything, then I get the same thing/errors. I have discovered, through trial and painful effort, that if I deselect update choices for all the xserver updates on the older version then I can continue/function. I can load/install whatever I want, but get the nag every boot about updates being available. I am scared to do any of them for fear of breaking my install. I would like to resolve this as I am interested in the updated features of the more recent versions. Specifically, when I ran the install of Dapper Flight 5, I noticed that it automatically detected both my wired nic and my wireless nic (a Broadcom AirForce One 54g according to hardware info) My laptop is an HP Pavilion 8215US it has the dvd burner dual layer, ATI x600 video, etc. I also heard that Dapper allows us to look/see files on a windows partition. This is important to me as well. I have files that I would prefer not to duplicate on both the windows partition and the ubuntu partitions. I teach at a k-12 school in Winnipeg. I have a K12LTSP server and 40 thin clients. The server is running the Fedore Core 4 flavour, and for next year I want to try the Ubuntu version, so I want to take it out for a spin. Right now I use my laptop, with windows, network boot into the LTSP wired, and have a partition on my laptop to play with linux distros. If all goes well, The server next year will be loaded with the Ubuntu LTSP combination. It would be wonderful to have my local (to my laptop) also be a ubuntu distro. I have some applications that I just can't find a linux equivelent of so must keep that damn windows partition. Sorry for the long post but if I could get help on any/all of these issues that would be great. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Stephen Mc Gowan. DCU Rockclimbing Club - Trips/PRO- <a href="http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~climbing">www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~climbing</a> DCU Sailing Club - Race Officer- <a href="http://www.dcusailing.com">www.dcusailing.com</a>