I don't expect the nvidia drivers to work properly on laptops, but can you please list the contents of xorg.conf on your desktop machine? My GF2-MX is working fine under AMD64 right now.
On 5/1/07, Richards Jr, Edward C. <ECRichards at fbd.com> wrote: > > I can't get it (either i386 or AMD 64 versions) to run on my laptop or > desktop machines. Both have nVidia video cards. It will only boot the live > CD in "safe video" mode and then after the installation completes and upon > reboot, in the case of the laptop (nVidia 6150), the screen just morphs into > a bunch of smeared colors and the desktop machine (nVidia 6200), I get to > the login screen, log in and it drops me to command line as says something > about it can't start the desktop or some such error message. I've been > running SimplyMepis, Sabayon, and all versions of Xandros on the laptop and > Xandros Professional and KnoppMyth on the desktop machine, all without > incident. > > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net]*On > Behalf Of *Andrew Baudouin > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:47 AM > *To:* general at brlug.net > *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Dell chooses Ubuntu > > Ubuntu has the most hardware support, popularity, and commitment to the > desktop space right now. I was amazed to install Feisty and have my PVR-150 > working without doing anything in 64-bit mode . > > > On 5/1/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8661763902.html > > > > Boy, I hope this goes well. I would so love to see some major Linux > > desktop proliferation. But then, I'm posting this to a LUG list, so > > that's a given, right?! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070501/420bd30c/attachment.html
