Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
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A friend of mine is trying to get TV-out working on his box. He's got Ubuntu Dapper 6.06, and all the nvidia drivers are properly installed. I fixed the xorg.conf for him, but now his X server just crashes. dmesg doesn't give us anything useful; the nvidia drivers load cleanly and the kernel boots just fine. It's X itself that seems to have the problem. I'm gonna paste the relevant stuff from xorg.conf below...if anyone wants the full file, or the output of dmesg, or whatever, just ask me.
I'm not sure what model the card is, unfortunately.
Cartman
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There's probably something useful in /var/log/xorg.0.log, though with X that's stretching the definition a bit.
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I wanted to get to know the Linux operating system, so I did some research & conluded that Ubuntu would be the best OS for me. (Actually, Mandriva is more like a Windows operating system than Ubuntu is, but Mandriva seems to have a million bugs; Ubuntu is more like a Mac OS, which I'm also familiar with).
Anyway, Ubuntu gives you the neat option of burning an ISO onto a CD-ROM, and using it as a boot disk to sample Ubuntu while not changing anything to my current Windows OS. However, I have a DSL broadband connection through Verizon, and I can't figure out how to use it with Ubuntu, if that's even possible at all. Anybody familiar with Ubuntu who can help?
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Cartman
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I'm not sure I understand... do you mean your internet connection doesn't work while in (live-)Ubuntu? If so, open a terminal and type "ifconfig", and check whether it lists any interfaces (they'll be named ethX, with X increasing from zero). In case the output doesn't contain anything but the local loopback (127.0.0.1), what's the brand and model of the network card in your computer?
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quote:do you mean your internet connection doesn't work while in (live-)Ubuntu?
If you mean, am I booting up from the CD and using applications directly from the CD, then yes. I have not installed the OS on my computer at all, but I didn't think I had to in order to use the functions on the CD, which includes Firefox.
quote:If so, open a terminal and type "ifconfig", and check whether it lists any interfaces (they'll be named ethX, with X increasing from zero). In case the output doesn't contain anything but the local loopback (127.0.0.1), what's the brand and model of the network card in your computer?
Unfortunately, I know absolutely nothing about Linux, which is why I'm trying to learn it from Ubuntu. I don't even know how to check what brand/model my network card is...sorry.
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Apparently, I needed to download a file containing something called pppoe, whatever that means. Once I extracted the file onto my Linux desktop, I then launched Firefox. Voila, instant internet access!!! (no, I don't know how it works or why...all I care about is that it worked at all). I'm actually on Linux right now.
The only drawback is that because I'm booting from the CD-ROM and not my Windows hard drive, I have to store the extracted files on a flash drive, and move them to the desktop each time I boot into Linux for the internet to work. But that's really no big deal.
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Cartman
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Basically, DSL relies on the point-to-point protocol (PPP) to establish a direct connection between your computer and your ISP. The snag is that Ethernet devices (such as your NIC) are designed for local-area networks, not point-to-point ones. Enter PPPoE, which is simply another protocol for encapsulating PPP traffic (data frames) so it looks like Ethernet traffic on the outside and your NIC knows what to do with it. However, since Ubuntu by default doesn't have any idea that your network data needs special treatment, it assumes using PPPoE isn't necessary. There should be a package 'pppoe' in your CD's repository that you can install by issueing the command 'sudo apt-get install pppoe' from a terminal, but obviously you'll still have to do that each time you boot from CD.
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Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
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Way to drown a n00b in jargon, Cartman. In any case, as for my original question, your advice is appreciated. The xorg log file didn't really tell me anything since I couldn't get the poor guy to understand what he needed to email me...but in any case it's working now, it turned out he had the legacy nvidia drivers installed instead of the proper ones.
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In any case, as for my original question, your advice is appreciated. The xorg log file didn't really tell me anything since I couldn't get the poor guy to understand what he needed to email me...but in any case it's working now, it turned out he had the legacy nvidia drivers installed instead of the proper ones.
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