[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu on P4

[Charl Wentzel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org>
>
> Good link, but all the fixes are chipset based, so he still needs to 
> know what video card he has.  With that, I was going to send him 
> directly to that fix.  (Typing from my i855 based laptop that needed a 
> fix to boot)

It seems I spoke to soon.  The noacpi option sorted everything out for
Xubuntu, but I prefer to use Ubuntu if I could unless the performance
is really bad.  The noacpi option allowed the Ubuntu installation to 
be completed with now slowing down to a crawl as before... yay!

However, once I boot Ubuntu I get the same result as before.  So the 
screen card is worth investigating:

	nVidia NV18 Geforce4 MX4000

>From Google its clear that this one often the cause of problems.  But
I couldn't find clear instructions on how to install the driver for it
in 10.04.  I could find instructions for previous releases of Ubuntu
that refer to packages and programs that don't exist in 10.04 (e.g. Envy)
or instructions that are way too cryptic.

I'm hoping you know of something more useful.

Regards
Charl