I haven't tried the new Ubuntu yet, but I have managed to get a fairly stable version of Debian Squeeze onto this machine.
I installed Debian Squeeze from the stable DVD without many problems. As soon as I tried to do the initial update the system froze with the now all-to-familiar "fuzzy screen freeze". On the subsequent reboot I appended acpi=off to the boot line and managed to do the rest of the updates. There are only a few issues with the system as of right now: It's using kernel version 2.6.32-5-686 (an older kernel, but the most current in Debian Squeeze stable)I'm still testing things but so far everything else seems fine. This isn't a solution, really, seeing as this machine should be capable of much better video, but at least I do have a linux working and apparently stable, so far. I would be interested in hearing if anyone has any luck with the new Ubuntu. __ Charlie. |
Hello, i've got the same problem, i'm using right now fedora 14 and every thing works fine as long you don't use the web, if you add kernel parameter "nomodeset" it doesn't retrieve data from the web at all. I just want a linux distro that works with a basic web browser.
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I was having the same problem of this computer either freezing up or just not connecting using the wireless card. In doing some research I have found that the network card (Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet) in this laptop has a lot of issues and in my own tests the freezing up primarily happened when I was using that interface. When I disable the LAN card in the bios the wireless seems to be connecting a whole lot faster, stays connected and the freezing up appears to have gone away. For reference I am running openSUSE 12.2 on it.
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Fedora 14 working
As Henchmen said I disabled the lan interface and it worked fine. I tested it on fedora 14 and fedora 16. That should be the problem.
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