Re: Pavilion zd8000

Yuki Cuss <celtic@xxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:30:10 +1100

Liam Marshall wrote:
Ubuntu 5.1x is the distro for me!  I have been searching around for a 
distro that does all that I want.  This one appears to be it.
I have had trouble with video card compatibility(Mandrake), with sound 
card(Fedora), Wireless NIC (SUSE)
Something always seemed to make it difficult to make the complete 
switch to linux
I am a computer teacher at a private Catholic school in Winnipeg 
Canada.  I administer a K12LTSP server with 40 thin clients.  I use my 
laptop with a multimedia projector in my lessons.  I was always 
booting my laptop off the network cause I could not get a fully 
funtioning linux distro working on the laptop stand alone and be able 
to access files on the linux server.  Now this one does.  SUSE came 
close but could not connect to the samba shares for some reason still 
unexplained. 
Ubuntu does!  and some time this summer I will load a test system with 
the ltsp version of ubuntu and see how it compares to the fedora 
flavour of ltsp.  Hopefully it will out perform it!  The fedora 
version of a terminal server environment still has issues with sound.  
Anyone know if Ubuntu does? (sound on the thin clients I mean)
Anyway, to make a long story short, the only remaining problem I have 
is with xserver and my laptop.  I had to go through the installation 
of ubuntu several times because the first time I used a downloaded 
edubuntu distro (from two weeks ago)  install went fine, but on 
reboot, xserver refused to start, asked me to fix it, then restart 
gdm.  I had no idea how.  then tried ubuntu 5.1x and it went fine, 
including reboot.  Then did ALL updates, rebooted, and same thing, 
xserver refused to start, asked me to fix it, then restart gdm.  
again, no idea how.
finally redid the last type of install, and while running the update 
program, removed all xserver updates from the list of choices as I had 
no idea which one hoops me.  I could live with that, except I get a 
constant nag screen about there being 60 updates waiting every time I 
boot.  Anyone know or can guess which update is hooping me?  I suspect 
the ati one, but do not want to take the chance as I now have it set 
up nice and programs and data loaded.
Help would be appreciated 

Apologies for not answering your questions, but I can't help wondering: 
5.1x? There's only 5.4, 5.10, 6.4, 6.10, (etc..)
I've tested LTSP at my school with Ubuntu, but the client machines I 
booted up weren't connected to an audio device anyway, so I couldn't test.
- Yuki.

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