On Sunday 09 September 2012 6:47:32 am Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > > I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to > > install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of > > different sort. > > Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same > > symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a > > lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any > > ideas? > > Yes, try with the text expert installer, disable KMS and jump to a debug > console just in the event there's something logged there.
afaikt this laptop has the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M card which needs the lastest NVIDIA 295.59 Linux update, from Nvidia. Not sure which Debian version, if any, has updated non-free to include this. Text mode expert install may help. snip -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209091117.36594.gomadtr...@gci.net
