Someone please read this I need some help

Hello everyone
I recently bought a HP pavilion dv6000, it has a nVidia Ge Force Go 7200
graphics card. I have tried installing both Fedora Core 6 and Ubuntu but
I still get the same problem and am about to give up on Linux. After both installs and after I reboot the Laptop both distros start to load but just before the GUI is about to load I get a blank black screen and nothing hapens anymore. I'm gesing there is a problem with linux recognizing my graphics
card or maybe I'm doing something wrong. Can anyone help me?

Thanks!

 

Has to do with acpi i think. I think you need to add "acpi=off" from interactive boot. I have a 6040 and didn't really like Ubuntu. I use Sabayon and everything just works, Beryl and Nvidia drivers are loaded from the start.

 

I'm an absolute begginer with linux.
How do you add "acpi=off" from interactive boot.?

 

Linux will work on a laptops, but because of the customized hardware that tend to be in them they can sometimes be a bit of a pain to set up and *might* not be the best choice for someone new to the platform.

For learning the basics, using Windows + VMWare may help. Use Windows as your OS and then install "VMWare Server" ( http://www.vmware.com) on Windows. That'll let you create a 'virtual machine' which can run different brands of Linux with a lot less trouble. That may shallow the learning curve a bit.

That said, under Fedora try booting the system, when you get a window that says "Press any key to enter the menu" or some such, do so.

You'll see a menu with one or more "kernels". Press the letter 'a' then add 'acpi=off'.

BTW, the fedora mailing list here has a *lot* of users on it, and as such the turn around time for getting resposnes would be that much faster than the one around here. The fedora list can be found here:

http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

I don't use ubuntu, so I don't know what list(s) they use, but the instructions above should apply to both.

Another thing to do would be to search for your laptop model nam e and "linux" in google -- because laptops can be hit and miss under Linux people often will post their experiences installing it to help the community.

 

Based on http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-laptops/75587-linux-hp-dv6000-amd-laptops-4.html you might want to try the kernel parm iommu=off. It looks like you may also need a fairly recent Kernel version.

Anyway, for Ubuntu, the Grub bootloader is configured such that you have to press <Esc> to enter the Grub menu.
The top Ubuntu kernel line should be hilighted,
press ' e' to edit this boot stanza,
<cursor down> to the line that begins kernel,
press ' e',
then add to the end of the line a space followed by the kernel parm iommu=off
press <Enter>.
Now press ' b' to boot.

Note: This only changes the boot stanza temporarily. If you find a kernel parm that works we can tell you how to make the change permanent.