Re: [kde-linux] Cannot access certain site
- From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:21:38 +0000
On Saturday 29 March 2008 21:09:49 david wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 29 March 2008 20:49:37 david wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 29 March 2008 09:22:39 david wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
So what sort of spec are you talking about? It would help us to
understand your problem. As for the new laptop, maybe the video card
is too recent? It sometimes takes a while for things to catch up.
When I bought this laptop there was a similar problem, which went
away as things updated.
We don't buy new stuff - we're bottom feeders. We buy cheap stuff.
The wife's new laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A205-S5804, which uses
Mobile Intel GL960 Express graphics. I did try to use KUbuntu's Intel
driver with it, and only succeeded in getting a blank black screen. So
is that chipset so new that Linux doesn't really support it yet?
Absolutely not. Have you googled for this? Try 'linux graphics
GB960'. I got plenty of hits. For a starter
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/Video/Intel
<quote>
The driver for this controller is known as i810, is open-source, and is
distributed as part of the X.org X server packages with Linux
distributions. This driver provides low-performance 3-D graphics
acceleration capabilities. </quote>
It was the i810 driver that gave me the blank black screen on her
machine. Using KUbuntu 7.10 in her case.
When you say it gave you the blank screen - was that during bootup?
Yes. Normally, KUbuntu gives you its little quick text countdown, then a
graphic loading progress screen. When the graphic screen would have come
up, the display went blank and never displayed anything.
I don't know kubuntu, but distros usually have a key that will take you to a
screen where you can edit the boot lines. Often it's Esc. If you can get to
that, try adding 'noapic nolapic' to the boot line and see if that helps.
There are other parameters that might work if that doesn't.
Anne
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