{"id":73,"date":"2007-02-07T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.168.29.5\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2007-02-07T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T21:58:00","slug":"ubuntu-on-gateway-mx8711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/ubuntu-on-gateway-mx8711\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu on Gateway MX8711"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am outlining here my attempt to run Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft on a brand new Gateway mx8711 laptop. The conclusion of my trials was a failure at starting X11. I&#8217;m posting my notes here so the next guy(maybe you?) doesn&#8217;t have to repeat my work or can maybe get some ideas on whatever problem they&#8217;re actually working on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using Edgy Eft as a live cd only, I didn&#8217;t install it on the local hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>First boot: X would not start and I got the error &#8220;Failed to start the xserver&#8230;&#8221; By looking at the detailed error info and scrolling down(which isn&#8217;t apparent when the scroll bars are all this random screwed up looking character) I saw somethinng like &#8220;screens found but none have a useable configuration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Second boot: This time I hit F4 at the boot options to try the 1024x768x32 video mode. Same result.<\/p>\n<p>Third boot: Used boot option vga=771. This made the bootup sequence look a little different but I got the same result as above.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth boot: At this point, I decided to try Dapper Drake or 6.06 LTS. It still didn&#8217;t work but I was able to get to a command line with the live cd so more work is possible(as always).<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s about all the time I had to try out thelivecd on this laptop. If you&#8217;re in the same boat, I wish you better luck. Let me know if it works for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am outlining here my attempt to run Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft on a brand new Gateway mx8711 laptop. The conclusion of my trials was a failure at starting X11. I&#8217;m posting my notes here so the next guy(maybe you?) doesn&#8217;t have to repeat my work or can maybe get some ideas on whatever problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}