Ubuntu Hardware Detection

Hey guys, sorry for the double post (one in the Compal Forum). But I felt a more detailed in the linux forum might help the solution come quicker

I jsut got my new Compal Hel80 system today from powernotebooks.com. its a sager model 2080. Specs:

I installed Ubuntu 6.10 onto it, everything went fine. For some reason, however, when I go to device manager, pretty much all of the devices are unknown. Any ideas?

I think this problem might be linked to my second obstacle. When I go to install the OGL drivers for the Nvdia Go 7600. I get X-Server errors upon reboot and I can't get back into the desktop. It says somethign along the lines of Nvidia Device not found.

I am new to linux in general, so I apologize for not knowing the ropes. Any help would be most graciously appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Your hardware will likely show up as "unknown" because the OS can't detect particular part IDs for the laptop. Laptops use a lot of custom parts that change from one manufacturer to another, so it's hard to detect the in depth information for the hardware. If you look at the general things like the processor, you shouldn't have too many "unknowns." If everything works, I wouldn't worry about it.

As for the graphics drivers, I'm assuming that at boot you get stuck in a terminal. So do the following:

1. Log in as normal (your password won't show up as you type it; this is normal).

2. Type the following:

Code:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

then type your password.

3. Then type:

Code:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

Then you'll want to reboot, easiest from the terminal by:

Code:

sudo reboot

Upon reboot, you should have your GUI back, but if not post it up here; you'll have to go in and edit your xorg.conf file by hand within the terminal, and I haven't done this in so long that I've forgotten exactly how.

 

haha thanks for the info. i got annoyed and just reinstalled ubuntu. still no devices found. (not even the processor) but everything works fine? we'll see how round two goes.

 

sweet, got it. thanks

 

Ummm... FYI, Sager != Compal. The HEL80 is a COMPLETELY different machine from the Sager 2080. Glad you got it working though