Ubuntu 7.04 beta and 6.04 driver problem

d51lv4 · 04-20-2007, 09:33 AM

Hello,
I got a NEC Versa P8100 laptop and it has a NVidia GeForce Go 6200 VGA card (15.4 wide-screen). I downloaded Ubuntu 7.04beta and ran the live CD, but the display is not working properly. the display was mostly black and orange stripes were flickering on the screen

i got Ubuntu 6.04 installed, but it doesn't detect my Realtek REL8139/810 NIC and the realtek soundcard and the display isn't wide-screen, it was stretched.

will the new 7.04 work without this much problems? what should i do? please help.

thanks

carl0ski · 04-21-2007, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dharshin

Hello,
I got a NEC Versa P8100 laptop and it has a NVidia GeForce Go 6200 VGA card (15.4 wide-screen). I downloaded Ubuntu 7.04beta and ran the live CD, but the display is not working properly. the display was mostly black and orange stripes were flickering on the screen

i got Ubuntu 6.04 installed, but it doesn't detect my Realtek REL8139/810 NIC and the realtek soundcard and the display isn't wide-screen, it was stretched.

will the new 7.04 work without this much problems? what should i do? please help.

thanks

Since ubuntu probably wont help you on a beta 7.04 since the final was release yesterday.

I'd suggest grabbing the final 7.04
theres a good chance it wont have the problem your experiencing

However the 6.04 problem is easy fixed

as a root user type this at a command line

modprobe 8139too

this will load the drivers for realtek 8139 network cards.
then you may need to restart the network service

/etc/init.d/network restart

d51lv4 · 05-08-2007, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carl0ski

Since ubuntu probably wont help you on a beta 7.04 since the final was release yesterday.

I'd suggest grabbing the final 7.04
theres a good chance it wont have the problem your experiencing

However the 6.04 problem is easy fixed

as a root user type this at a command line

modprobe 8139too

this will load the drivers for realtek 8139 network cards.
then you may need to restart the network service

/etc/init.d/network restart

Thanks for your advice.

but i just tried 7.04, it has the same VGA problem and cant do anything because i cant see anything. please help

d51lv4 · 05-08-2007, 01:05 PM

Now it's working. i just use the "safe gui" option (as i could remember) to boot. It has detected my sound card and nic as well. thanks carl0ski. thanks a lot.