drip Wrote:@-digitalAir
What problems were you experiencing? I can get a minimal install of 11.10 working fine on my hardware but I can't get it working with my display.
Major NIC problems. Every variant of 11.10 that I tried to install was able to detect the lan (i.e. I could see in the logs that it was detect when the cable was plugged in or unplugged), but neither DHCP or static IP configuration worked. Sometimes it would work for a little while, and I'd get up to 6% download, but most of the time, the install just reported "unable to configure (or detect) the network".
I even found some posts about using the r8168 driver from realtek instead of the r8169. So, I built the driver on another machine and mod'd the initrd of the boot ISO, but that didn't work either.
In the end, I've discovered that if you perform a 'do-release-upgrade' immediately after installing 11.04, it works pretty consistently... takes a little longer, though
In addition to the NIC issue, I'm running into a boot splash screen issue even on 11.04. When I boot, I see nothing but a blank black screen for about 30 seconds or so (booting from a usb drive during test and HDD otherwise... no SSD in this one yet). Then I just get a blinking cursor in the top left corner.
The system is booted at this time, though. If I ctrl-alt-F1, I get TTY1 to log in. Some Googling found that this is an issue with the framebuffer and vesa/fb drivers that get loaded by Plymouth to display the Ubuntu booting splash screen. So, I'm still working on this issue.
-digitalAir
-digitalAir