Good morning Linux. Fuck off Zimmer.

2008-02-03 08:25:07

#1

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7035|Scotland

Linux basically told me to piss of.

I burned a 64 bit version of Ubuntu. Booted it up. Clicked on start up Ubuntu and install.

*waited*

Blank screen.

I have an 8800GTS 640MB
P5N-E SLI
E6600

I have tried safe booting, booting with lower resolution, booting with acpi options:
noapic nolapic pci=noacpi acpi=off

Thanks Linux. For making my day worse than it already is. So much for it being the "Greatest OS out there.". Yeah, bull.

I know its my GFX that causes the problem, but fixes are not concrete and they are far and wide. Damn linux and osx.

2008-02-03 08:29:36

#2

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6928

I've never had much luck with the 64 bit version. 32bit seems to be much more compatible.

2008-02-03 08:30:31

#3

..teddy..jimmy: Member; +1,393|6928

https://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q47/_teddy_jimmy/LOOL.jpg

Slight coincidence? look at advert

Sorry to hear it Zimmer I'd try and help you if I could.

2008-02-03 08:31:53

#4

ig: This topic seems to have no actual posts; +1,199|6801

get xp?

2008-02-03 08:33:31

#5

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7035|Scotland

ghettoperson wrote:
I've never had much luck with the 64 bit version. 32bit seems to be much more compatible.

It has nothing to do with the architecture. Both of them don't work.

2008-02-03 08:34:27

#6

Kurazoo: Pheasant Plucker; +440|6963|West Yorkshire, U.K

..teddy..jimmy wrote:
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q47/ … y/LOOL.jpg

Slight coincidence? look at advert

Sorry to hear it Zimmer I'd try and help you if I could.

It's not a coincedence, the advert find keywords in the post's and then find the most relevent ad, if you get what I mean.

Last edited by Kurazoo (2008-02-03 08:34:50)

2008-02-03 08:34:31

#7

TheDarkRaven: ATG's First Disciple; +263|6903|Birmingham, UK

ig wrote:
get xpVista?

Or access some handy linux forums where I suppose many people would be happy to try and help you out.

2008-02-03 08:36:52

#8

..teddy..jimmy: Member; +1,393|6928

Kurazoo wrote:
..teddy..jimmy wrote:
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q47/ … y/LOOL.jpg

Slight coincidence? look at advert

Sorry to hear it Zimmer I'd try and help you if I could.
It's not a coincedence, the advert find keywords in the post's and then find the most relevent ad, if you get what I mean.

I did not know that.

2008-02-03 08:37:09

#9

Ricerckt93: Member; +69|6931

Hopefully we will get more driver support soon.

It seems to be the big thing holding it back.

2008-02-03 08:38:59

#10

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7035|Scotland

TheDarkRaven wrote:
ig wrote:
get xpVista?
Or access some handy linux forums where I suppose many people would be happy to try and help you out.

I already have Vista.

Already tried that. No solution. Some people can get it working, some can't.

It's quite pathetic on Linux's part. They should be providing the fixed. The GTS has been out for a long time.

2008-02-03 08:39:19

#11

Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6747

I once tried to run ubuntu on my back-up PC. Kept demanding that I get root-access to install programs. Would not let me get root-access despite being the only user on the machine. Put Windows back on two weeks later, zero problems with anything.

Last edited by DoctaStrangelove (2008-02-03 08:40:25)

2008-02-03 08:51:38

#12

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7035|Scotland

I don't care about people who say "go back to XP, Vista"
I really don't. Get out of this thread.

I want Linux as my second option. So your immature comments are useless here.

2008-02-03 08:54:15

#13

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7122|Reykjavík, Iceland.

I tried Ubuntu 64-bit once.

Didn't even support flash player....

2008-02-03 08:58:42

#14

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6801|...

Zimmer wrote:
It's quite pathetic on Linux's part.

lol Who is "linux", its more like your distro ... can you even boot a knoppix disk?

2008-02-03 09:08:47

#15

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7035|Scotland

jsnipy wrote:
Zimmer wrote:
It's quite pathetic on Linux's part.
lol Who is "linux", its more like your distro ... can you even boot a knoppix disk?

I can boot it. But once I press "Startup" it goes blank.

And yeah, I meant that.

2008-02-03 09:54:13

#16

elbekko: Your lord and master; +36|6680|Leuven, Belgium

Which distro?

2008-02-03 09:55:27

#17

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7035|Scotland

elbekko wrote:
Which distro?

Ubuntu.

2008-02-03 11:03:45

#18

elbekko: Your lord and master; +36|6680|Leuven, Belgium

Before booting, you should be able to force it into vesa or regular vga mode. Try that, install drivers and reboot.

2008-02-03 12:07:48

#19

DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6742|cuntshitlake

Zimmer wrote:
It's quite pathetic on Linux's part. They should be providing the fixed. The GTS has been out for a long time.

It's quite pathetic on nVidia's part, not the linux community's.

main battle tank karthus medikopter 117 megamegapowershot gg

2008-02-03 12:21:26

#20

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6928

BTW Ubuntu works fine with a GTS, my mate ran it for a while with one. Guess you just suck.

2008-02-03 12:56:47

#21

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7035|Scotland

ghettoperson wrote:
BTW Ubuntu works fine with a GTS, my mate ran it for a while with one. Guess you just suck.

Wrong. It's a known problem. Just do a lovely google search. It's a problem which occurrs a lot. You sure he didn't try it on 32 bit? I have it on 64 bit.

Again, DeathUnlimited, wrong. The problem is the driver recognition with Linux. If they have the option for the driver "nVidia" instead of "nv" in the driver commands, then it would boot up no problem. I highly doubt that is nVidias fault.

2008-02-03 13:00:00

#22

Defiance: Member; +438|6950

What indicated to you that its your GFX?

If the OS boots, and you're getting output, it sounds like a problem with the installer. Try reburning the disc, and redownload the ISO. With a decent connection a torrent should take ~30 minutes.

Zimmer wrote:
ghettoperson wrote:
BTW Ubuntu works fine with a GTS, my mate ran it for a while with one. Guess you just suck.
Wrong. It's a known problem. Just do a lovely google search. It's a problem which occurrs a lot. You sure he didn't try it on 32 bit? I have it on 64 bit.

Again, DeathUnlimited, wrong. The problem is the driver recognition with Linux. If they have the option for the driver "nVidia" instead of "nv" in the driver commands, then it would boot up no problem. I highly doubt that is nVidias fault.

That's not what he meant. Linux, and it's community is all open source. You know this. They can only make drivers with what the manufacturers provide them with. As it's been out for a while, but the the xFi has been out for far longer and Creative still hasn't given jack shit to any open source projects to make a Linux driver for it. That's why I have to use 2 sound cards.

Finally, as far as the greatest OS out there is said by stupid fanboys. Yes, linux is solid and good for it's purposes but if you can't take a bit of fiddling to get stuff to work then back out and repartition your drive. It'll take a bit of time, sleuthing but it's segued me in to programming and networking and you may learn some things from working with it yourself. As far as I'm concerned that's it's main benefit until we start talking about servers and Pentium III routers.

Last edited by Defiance (2008-02-03 13:05:34)

2008-02-03 13:27:38

#23

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7035|Scotland

Defiance, it was a GFX problem. I know it was because I just installed Ubuntu. The only way I could install it was by downloading the text only installer.

Once installed, the GRUB boot screen popped up and I clicked on UBUNTU. But it just comes up again with a blank screen, thus showing again that it was a GFX fault.

I can boot up if I remove "splash" and "quiet" from the boot command line.

2008-02-03 14:19:07

#24

elbekko: Your lord and master; +36|6680|Leuven, Belgium

Then boot up without X, download the drivers, and reboot. Wget works wonders. Make a tinyurl link for the driver download if you don't feel like typing it out.

Links:

Code:

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/169.09/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.run

OR

Code:

wget http://tinyurl.com/2xqcs7

When you have the file, just do

Code:

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.run

And it'll install. You might need to install kernel headers through apt, but that isn't very hard to do either.

2008-02-03 17:22:49

#25

Defiance: Member; +438|6950

Try what elbekko said, though X should function without those drivers, with minimal support such as when you haven't installed drivers on XP. Long live 640x480.

Last edited by Defiance (2008-02-03 17:43:41)

BF2S Forums Good morning Linux. Fuck off Zimmer.

ghettoperson wrote:

..teddy..jimmy wrote:

ig wrote:

Kurazoo wrote:

..teddy..jimmy wrote:

TheDarkRaven wrote:

ig wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

jsnipy wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

elbekko wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:

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ghettoperson wrote:

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