Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Ubuntu on Acer 5000 lappy

I have tried desperately trying to load Ubuntu on my lappy since a long time but always futile. I went through tons of forums, lot of users usually having the ATI
graphics card face this issue. Basically the installation starts, the
status messages start dropping, suddenly whoosh, the screen goes blank
forever. Initially I too believed the problem was with the ATI card, in fact ATI
has even accepted this issue officially and have created a work around
for the same. As a final try, before installation I hit the F1 help
button, there was a choice to disable the frame buffer, not sure what
it does though, continued the installation and then bingo! It
succeeded. Its simply lovely to have Ubuntu Breezy Badger back.
Hail Linux!

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