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    Problems with both Win 7 and Ubuntu on dv6z-6100

    Discussion in 'HP' started by plainzwalker, Mar 8, 2012.

  1. plainzwalker

    plainzwalker Newbie

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    I some how screwed up my installation of Win 7 yesterday, and after recovering the files I needed off the hard drive I started to reinstall it. The problem I am having is it seems that some of the drivers that I am downloading from HP either don't seem like they belong to the laptop (I was unaware that it came with USB 3.0 ports for instance, yet there are drivers for it). As well as some drivers seem to cause Windows to crash on boot.

    I am currently in the middle of a move so I do not have my recovery discs at this time. I decide that its fine and will just install a distro of linux until I get my recovery disks. This is were my second problem is. I was trying ubuntu since it usually plays the nicest with weird systems and drivers, however during the install or live cd session it will shut off the screen and not bring it back up even though it finishes booting. I looked around and some people suggested hitting the brightness up button, but that does nothing for me.

    I also had to reformat the whole HD because of whatever screwed up the initial installation of windows

    I have never had so many problems with any install before, and slowly coming to my wits end. Can someone please give me a suggestion or two about how I can go about getting either OS installed so I can have a stable system please?

    Thank you
     
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    xAcid9 Notebook Deity

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    Have you try booting into Ubuntu with "nomodeset" boot option? or "radeon.modeset=0".

    Or maybe you can try different distro like Crunchbang or Slitaz. :eek:
     
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    plainzwalker Newbie

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    I will give that a shot. Hopefully one of those two options will work. if not I read somewhere that the 12.4 beta works with radeon video cards better than other releases.


    Thank you
     
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    Well I was able to get Ubuntu installed however when it first boots the screen still shuts off as if it is powered down and nothing I tried will bring it up. I tried to d a live session and it will boot into console but I can't get X to start (or Xorg apparently).

    So I am basically back to ground zero, but at least I made some progress. I did use the "nomodeset" in order to get it to install.
     
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    I was able to get the latest beta of Ubuntu to install properly, so I am happy that I at least have a working OS on the laptop.


    Thank you
     
    plainzwalker, Mar 8, 2012
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