[GLLUG] xorg problem's laptop HP Pavillion zv6000

[Eduardo Cesconetto]

I had a really hard ime to find any distro to work correctly in this
machine, then I gave up and bought an IBM... No distros at all ran
sound, and very few (including DSL) ran X.
[]'s
Eduardo

Karl Schuttler wrote:

>I don't understand what it is that you are trying to do...are you
>trying to get X working on gentoo, or trying to install ubuntu?
>(although it sounds like you are trying to avoid doing that). X
>shouldn't be too difficult to configure. If you have the right drivers
>build into your kernel or loaded with modules you should be able to
>just do an X -configure to make an Xorg.conf for you.
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>On 1/11/06, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>some one at the group said they had this laptop and got rid of it because
>>they couldn't get sound to work in ubuntu. my question is did X work? if it
>>did can anyone think of a way I could find out how X and the kernel would be
>>configured without installing Ubuntu? If I have to install ubuntu I only
>>have 1 open partition. I'm currently trying to configure this laptop in
>>gentoo. oh and I'm headed for class now. so I won't get responses 'till
>>about 10 tonight. and I may not answer until tomorrow.
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