[K12OSN] Installing Ubuntu kills machine

[Steve Gilmore]

I have had similar trouble with ubuntu 5.04 & 5.10 on a dual P3-933. I 
believe it was due to the newer xorg drivers. I just ended up staying with 
the original ubuntu 4.11. It uses xserver and didn't have those display 
blanking issues.
SteveG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd O'Bryan" <toddobryan at mac.com>
To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 10:29 PM
Subject: [K12OSN] Installing Ubuntu kills machine


> Here's a question that someone may have good ideas about before I go  in 
> tomorrow and fight with my machine.
>
> I'm trying to install Ubuntu on a fairly old but nice machine--dual 
> 800MHz P5s, 1.75 gigs of RAM.
>
> Everything works up to the point where it looks like X should come  up, 
> but the monitor goes dead. This has happened before, so I pressed 
> Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get a terminal. And then discovered that the keyboard  was 
> dead.
>
> As a doornail. Pressing Num Lock or Caps Lock doesn't even turn on  the 
> lights on the keyboard, even though it did previously during the  install 
> before everything went black.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Todd
>
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