Ubuntu 7.10 on HP dv9500 - Blank Screen and Weird Operations

["George-119" <user=1545@nabble.blu.org>]

 Folks I usually just lurk around this email list but now I finally have 
a questions to post. 

I picked up a new HP Pavilion dv9500 Notebook (AMD 64x2) and I 
attempting to get Ubuntu 7.10 working on it. I say "working" because it 
seemed to somewhat install. The first problem I noticed was when I 
rebooted to actually launch Ubuntu, all I got was a blank screen. I then 
booted into safe mode and I was able to get a command prompt. Once I had 
a root shell I attempted to startup X and it worked, yet I got a bunch 
of complaints about the "switching user applet" that is new to 7.10. 

Anyways my next step was to su - to my user and try to launch X again 
but that failed, almost like it was hanging? So I moved back to root and 
relaunched X just to poke around. The strange thing was that I was 
receiving random errors on applications and even permissions, sorry I 
can't recall the exact messages. 

I have been searching the ubuntu forms regarding potential solutions 
(such as flags within the image booting, or X configuration) but none of 
them worked. So if anyone has had this problem, or have any clues I 
would greatly appreciate it. In the meantime I am going to go back to my 
old distro of Suse 10.1 and see if that works. 

thanks 
-george 

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