Hi all, I recently managed to install Ubuntu Feisty on my brand new HP Compaq 6710s laptop and thought of sharing my experience with the list in case it helps someone. I faced two major problems with this particular laptop.
First is the 80GB Hitachi SATA Hard Drive which Linux Distros simply fail to detect without some BIOS tweaking. I tried Knoppix, Ubuntu Warty, Ubuntu Feisty, Debian Sarge and Morphix NLP, without success, before googling to find out that SATA support in Linux is still iffy. Changing BIOS settings for the drive from "Native" to "Compatibility" fixed this problem. Second is the "very" new Intel 965GM chipset which is even newer than Ubuntu Feisty and hence is not supported out of the box. To fix that I had to install Feisty using the "alternate" cd with the text mode installer, which installs fine but leaves you sans a GUI. To fix the X problem, all I had to do was install the latest kernel by doing an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and then install the intel video drivers by doing an "apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel". Then I edited my xorg.conf file to use the "intel" video driver and voila! I had a nice shiny gui :) Followed that up with a "apt-get install beryl-manager" to get a "really" shiny gui but that step is strictly optional (but highly recommended) :) -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
