Thanks for all the help! I finally was able to do an installation, and have now lubuntu 12.10 beta running-
It seems, it is not using th e nonfree nvidia drivers, I do have installed libvdpau1 ubuntu-drivers-common xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa.dri (all installed by default by the installer) The problem I mentiones in the original post, that the livecd with lubuntu went into a black screen, is strange, but I found it could be solved by using the F3 key. Kjetil On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 02:58 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: >> I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to >> install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of >> different sort. >> Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same >> symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is >> a lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any >> ideas? >> >> I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but >> that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs >> returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd. >> Linux mint debian edition, after some time the installer program >> freezes, >> (happened repeatedly, at various points in the process. Got tired) Any >> ideas? > > Can you boot into a small Linux on a Live CD, e.g. can you boot into > http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start ? > Did you test Linux that aren't Debian based? E.g. Suse and/or Fedora? > > Regards, > Ralf > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1347264224.11998.46.camel@precise > -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever." George Orwell (1984) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAH=m5MiTAyXVARtaF1X1nJg2hVq-=Jatv1Sbg3QDa=6ioef...@mail.gmail.com
