[PLUG] Toshiba laptop & Ubuntu

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Wed May 23 20:18:33 UTC 2007


On 5/23/07, Bruce Kilpatrick <bakil_win at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Good day all,
>
> I have been laid up with a badly sprained ankle this last week and have
> been trying once again to successfully install Ubuntu Feisty to a
> Toshiba Satellite P35-S609 laptop.  The machine is loaded with a P4 3.2,
> 2g of memory, ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP, and am currently using the
> Atheros wireless restricted drivers (HAL).
>
> The problem I am having is the OS will hum along happily for a while and
> then will hang.  I still have mouse cursor and movement, but all running
> programs seem to halt in mid stride.  If I try to Ctrl-Alt-F1 out of the
> GUI...it tries and stalls part way out.  I tried installing the Kubuntu
> desktop and it reacts the same.
>
> The install went without a hitch.  The only message I see upon boot up
> (with quiet & splash) is about a timer bios something or another.  If
> this seems important to you I will read it and relay the exact text to
> you.
>
> I have resorted to the Win partition of this computer to try your
> patience with my questions.  I will be rebooting to try what you
> recommend or to fetch more info.
>
> I have had this same experience with Edgy.  Should you be looking for a
> different disto?  Which would you recommend?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bruce


Bruce,
I apologize for not adding context. I meant to say that the Atheros bits
were causing the lockups. I'm not familiar enough with Ubuntu and the
restricted driver set to know what it consists of but I'm going to go find
out :-)

Drew-



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