On Friday 13 January 2006 23:45, Richard Crawford wrote: > All right, I finally bit the bullet and installed Kubuntu on my laptop. > The MBR survived, and GRUB updated normally. > > Unfortunately, the computer won't start now. When I boot, I get as far as > "Checking battery state [ ok ]", and then the computer hangs. I've done > some research and found suggestions that this may be related to the NVidia > drivers, but since this computer has an ATI Radeon card, I doubt that's the > issue. I'm booting with noapic nolapic acpi=off options, but none of those > have done a lick of good. > > Any suggestions, anyone?
This appears to have been an issue with the ATI driver on my computer. I
added the following line in the Driver section of xorg.conf:
Option "NoAccel"
and that allowed me to boot normally into KDE.
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Richard S. Crawford (http://www.mossroot.com)
"That which does not kill me makes me stranger."
-Llewellyn, from Ozy & Millie
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