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Re: Ubuntu 7.10 on HP dv9500 - Blank Screen and Weird Operations



 On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 22:24 -0400, George wrote: 

> 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. 

<snip> 
just a thought ... did you download and install the 'alternative 64bit ' 
version of Ubuntu 7.10 ? 
you might also try the expert install. It is not as hard as it sounds, 
you just get to see what it is doing. 
I just installed 7.10 on my DV8000 (non -AMD64)  and it went in fine 
except for the wireless card. There is a new 'restricted drivers manager 
in 7.10 that installs the drivers for you, disables them and then lets 
you enable them after... Kinda weird but I can see why they did it.. The 
wireless card took a reboot once I could switch it on, but since then it 
has been perfect . 

does the laptop have the NVIDIA graphics card or the Radeon ? 

Richard 


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