F3JP, Ubuntu... No matching screen modes???

OK... got the F3JP, set 3 partitions, 2 25 gb ones, and a third that holds the rest. Then I installed Windows onto the first partition, and got it working. Not a clean install as I would refer to it, but it is working and I hope to not use it much anyway. After that I put the Ubuntu live CD (and DVD), both are for 7.04 Feisty Fawn, and it starts to boot.

It fails to load X server and the reason that it states (when I elect to show the details) is that the screen doesn't have a matching configuration??? Any ideas would be strongly appreciated.

 

...moved to Linux forums.

 

well, feisty fawn is still beta, so I'm not sure what to tell you beyond wait until April 19th when the final version is released and try then.

apparently edgy works fine with a few tweaks.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AsusF3JP?highlight=%28f3jp)

 

Same remark: even if beta is closed to release, that's always better to wait for the final release.

Then if it does not recognize the screen configuration... It's surely a problem when the xorg.conf was created by the LiveCD. So you can try to fix it, but if you don't know a lot about the xorg configuration... YOu can maybe copy paste the xorg.conf here or in a Linux forum, maybe someone will say "oh ok, here!". A bit complicated to do maybe.

Other solution: I would install it from the other CD (not LiveCD, but normal install) first. Then boot, see if it recognize the screen parameters.

If not, then two solutions:
-find someone else with the same computer, ask him for his xorg.conf (that's the file with the configuration of the graphic server), then copy the part about the screen in your own xorg.conf, then reboot
-move away the xorg.conf installed by default. In theory, it does not require this file anymore, as it's supposed to "ask" the hardware about its identity, then configure on the fly. Move it to a different name, like xorg.conf.bak, just to keep the original, don't delete it!

Hope it helps!

 

See if booting the LiveCD in Safe Graphics Mode helps. Should be the second option on the boot splash.

 

I tried safe graphics mode, I even did a command line install (and then, when the OS tried to boot, same thing). I guess I'll try Ubuntu 6.

My question is, if I install 6 now, can it update itself to 7 easily through their updater tool? I figure that if 6 can work with it, then I update to 7 and hopefully see if it works.

Oh the joy of all I will have to learn. I mean, I had switched over my domain controller from 2K server to Linux some time ago, but haven't really used it or done much with it, beyond research samba and such (and I don't really remember that). I am mostly totally new to this, but all I know is that I must get off Windows...

 

I had this same problem with my Dell E1405, but not with Fiesty. I wanted to install Edgy, but it would refuse to boot the LiveCD because of X Server failing to load (even in safe mode). I tried Dapper and it worked in safe mode so I installed Dapper and updated to Edgy. It's sad to hear that Fiesty still has problems booting on some notebooks. I would have thought this would be addressed by now. I should try booting Fiesty on my E1405, for some reason I don't think it will work...

 

The strange thing is I just bought my laptops a week ago. It isn't like support would be removed, it is a very modern, very recent, laptop. I had thought there might have been a particular issue with the F3JP, which is why I put this in the Asus forum.

Anyway, I just now started installing Ubuntu 6. It works, it sees my monitor just fine, and all. Just seems strange to me that 6 sees it when 7 doesn't. Oh well...

 

Are you sure you didn't have a bad burn? If you burn at high speeds this tends to happen (I never burn any faster than 4X).

 

I had a couple copies of Ubuntu 7 to try, one was the DVD version, one was the recent CD version, and both had the exact same problem.

 

[OT]With drives and media certified for higher speed burning, burning at lower speeds is a more risky practice.[/OT]

 

I had similar problems when installing ubuntu feisty fawn (7.4) on my asus f3jp. Once the install failed (live cd not the actual installation) I fired up vim and edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf as described here

(Note that the link suggests that the instructions are for 6.10 but they work for 7.4 - verified)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AsusF3JP?highlight=(f3jp)

Although the above link says "It also might be a wise idea to install the fglrx drivers so that 3D acceleration may be supported." I found that I *had* to install fglrx and make the other changes to xorg.conf otherwise `startx` failed.

Once you have made the changes `startx` should bring up gnome and you can do the install. BTW flg_glxgears works nicely and `glxinfo |grep direct`indicates direct rendering is supported.

Once the install had completed I rebooted only to find that I had similar problems. Installing xorg-driver-fglrx fixed this.

`sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx`
`sudo reboot`

(BTW if you can't get this to work you can always install 6.10 and use apt-get to dist-upgrade this should give you the option to upgrade to 7.4)

Hope this helps