Compaq M2105us And Ubuntu Breezy
 

I have tried to get Ubuntu working on my laptop but have not been able to succed. I have tried both this version and the previous and am having the same problem in both. This happens with the live boot and when I install. Everything starts up fine but then when it starts to load Gnome it can't. Ubuntu detected my video card correctly as an ATI 200m. I don't know that much about linux as im quite new still but am willing to try anything at this point.

Thanks In Advance

Compaq's latest line of laptops
 

What you have is very similar to the other products from the Compaq Presario 64 bit line..

you might want to have a look at this, where it is explained whey Gnome crashed on booting with the ATI 200M card.

http://lists.lugod.org/mailinglists/.../msg00003.html


you might just want to go over this as well, but the first one is what you might be looking for:

http://lists.lugod.org/mailinglists/...esario_v2310us

I tried changing the drivers to vesa and still no luck anyone out there have this problem and get a work around for it?

I have an ati 200m laptop and also use Breezy.... To use the Ati driver that comes with Breezy, I had to edit my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add: I added it to mine after BusID in the Section Device section. You may want to: first to set it back to ati...... After I run dpkg I also have to add: in the Module section..... 1 more thing. I also have to manually add my screen resolution.... I use "1280x768"

I would try adding "noaccel" first to at least get up and running.