clickerman Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 Yeah, that was me... Not many people were helping on that and I never got any answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Your motherboard seems to be very obscure, i expected Asus's web site to be the first result yet it's not on the first nor second page. Are you sure that is your motherboards model? A unrelated note: You are the second person I have 'met' who installed a old (but not yet unsupported) version of Ubuntu expecting every thing to work. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing (6.06 is a LTS version of course) but (like windows) the latest version is always the 'best' thing to use, but unlike windows this is actually true. For what reason did you choose to use this particulate version? You had the disk so you thought "Why not?" for example? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clickerman Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 Yep thats the number that is on the box, and support DVD that came with it. The reason I installed it was that I love the open source concept and someone had given it to me last year, I had just recently built my own box and didn't have the cash left over for windows so i used the CD that had been given to me. I have downloaded the AMD64-bit version of Gutsy, and like mentioned before waiting till I go to the store to get some blank CDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 The reason I installed it was that I love the open source concept and someone had given it to me last year, So it was a case if "You had the disk so you used it"? Hmmm... perhaps this is a unseen danger of two releases yearly. Each new version isn't by any stretch a new OS at all. More of a service pack (comparing to windows) or a sub-version (comparing to OS 10). The improvements are rather impressive each time, from 7.04 to 7.10 major improvements in wireless adapter support where made for example. </thinking out loud> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I have no idea why they call each new service pack a new version of the thing. It would be much simpler if they copied the MS service pack idea instead. Every 6 months a new service pack is released and you just click to update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Microsoft more less does the same thing they just use words instead of numbers IE "Windows Vista SP1" instead of Windows 6.01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clickerman Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 Ok I now have Gutsy installed and the sound works, YAY!!! unfortunately now my graphics card (NX8500GT-MTD series by MSI) won't work. What happens is I'll select the card to be my primary graphics device from the BIOS, the GRUB will load then the Linux kernel will start to load then everything goes black and it is as tho there is no signal coming from the computer. I have installed the "restricted" drivers for the card and it has not helped any. Now what am I doing wrong? P.S. Thanks everyone for being cool and helping! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Do you have multiple graphics cards or out puts? Try them, see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clickerman Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 Yeah, I have the on-board and my 8500GT, When the screen goes blank nether work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 When grub appears press f6 and remove the 'quite' and 'splash' options. What happens now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clickerman Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 I don't have that option?!!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Did you press f6 when grub appeared? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clickerman Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 I did and nothing happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 thats because I'm thinking of the wrong thing. Insted press e then e again, edit out 'quite' and 'splash' hit return then press b. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clickerman Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 it was 'Esc' not 'e' and editing out those two did make ubuntu work I just don't like the idea of having to work from the cmd line the rest of my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Linux is a command line based OS with a variety of GUI's you can stick on the top of it. Windows is an OS* designed around a GUI. These are 2 fundamentally different approaches, and if you want to use Linux you *will* need to learn how to use the command line. There is no way around that. A lot of people might disagree with me here, but I would recommend getting a 2nd machine (Pentium 3 or greater) and sticking FreeBSD on it. I spent ages trying to get into *nix OS's, and finding that while 90% of the time the GUI was fine, the 10% of times it wasn't I would be completely stuck. When I tried FreeBSD, it forced me to learn how a *nix OS worked before I started to use it. Yes, BSD is different to Linux but most of the skills are transferable with only slight adjustments. Just banging Ubuntu on a box and copy/pasting text from a tutorial does not a Linux user make. *As far back as NT4 you could get flavors of Windows that came without a GUI, but they were for specialist use only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst Then permanently remove the quite and splash options some where near the bottom. There is a minor issue however. When new kernels are released (which isn't too often) menu.lst will be rewritten to how it was originally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 and that's why you ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS make backups of OS or other system files (wow WM6 makes repeating words easy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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