[xubuntu-users] xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 87, Issue 11

Wee Dram a3c63608 at telus.net
Sat Apr 12 23:43:48 UTC 2014


As far as I know, there are no passwords to the hard drive. Haven't needed
them for XP and haven't seen anything on any screens. and I guess I wouldn't
know the PW if there was one!

 

I did do the checksum and, in fact got the Xubuntu working on my other
Toshiba. 

Ross

 

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[mailto:xubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Richard Tucker
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this isn't really technical, but it has worked for me on some old acer
laptops and an acer power SV  from the kids who know dad loves to ressurect
old computers.    on these the password to access the hard drive comes up
twice and I enter the passwords .   the xubuntu screen does not come up
until I repeatedly type that password quickly and repeatedly around 4 times
and the the xubuntu screen comes up , blanks and comes up again and then
turns to the desktop.    something magical came along during an update last
fall and the problem went away on all but one laptop ....if you can only get
xubuntu installed in the first place, eh?    good luck again.....   oh and
did you do a checksum of the xubuntu download?    sometimes if I use the
public library here  (free community access in   Canada) the connection is
so slow there have been errors in the download almost as in the dialup days.
 

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> Thank you, Benjamin and Fred and Richard, for your suggestions. 
> First, I forgot to mentioned that I was trying to install Xubuntu 12.04.4
desktop i386. 
> When I tried Benjamin's suggestion (acpi=off), a black screen with Xubuntu
on it appeared, along with a series of white dots showing, I guess, progress
in loading the program. This was followed eventually by some on-screen text
that went by too quickly to read. Then the screen went black and that was
the end of that. Fred's suggestion resulted once again in a white screen. 
> So, no luck so far. If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear
them. I'm searching in other places, too, but sometimes the information is a
bit cryptic, to me, at any rate. 
> Thanks again for the help,
> Ross
> 
> > On Apr 10, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Fred Roller <fredroller66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 04/10/2014 11:42 AM, Benjamin Shadwick wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:00 AM,
<xubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>> In summary: I burned a CD. I tried it on the computer but the screen
went white after a few moments. I tried the CD on a newer Toshiba and it
seems to work fine. After checking various help sources, I was able to get
to the boot menu on the older computer and try a few options there:
> >>> 
> >>> Deleting the ?quiet splash? command
> >>> 
> >>> Choosing the nomodeset
> >>> 
> >>> Adding the following, individually, to the boot options lineAdding
i915.modset=0
> >>> 
> >>> xforcevesa
> >>> 
> >>> fb=false
> >>> 
> >>> vga=771
> >> You might try the acpi=off boot option. I have to use that with most
Ubuntu distros on my laptop until such time as I am able to replace the
Nouveau driver with the nVidia proprietary one because the former seems to
choke on the fact that I have SLI.
> >> 
> >> My failure mode is different, though: the screen alternates between
reg, green and blue colors.
> > If Benjamin's suggestion does not help then you can try using the
"forcepae" option at boot. If memory serves 12.04 Ubuntu and Xubuntu?
supports this and I know the Ubuntu 14.04 beta 2 does but the 14.04 Xubuntu
does not as of yet. None of the tweeners support the option (12.10-13.10)
Latest distros require pae to function according to my research on older
systems. "forcepae" allows for this adaptation. I don't have my links to the
discussions but a search on Pentium M processors should yield some better
explanations.
> > 
> > HTH
> > Fred
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