11.04 wont load on my new machine [was 10.04]

I recommend to install 10.04 right form the 10.04 ISO. I don't trust enough upgrading and you did it form 9.04... iiisssshhhh What do you think about installing 10.04?

Oups... If you want to go back to a latest version, just have to install it form the CD. What is the version of this TouchSmart 610?

Thanks for the reply,

It is a HP touchsmart 610 PC 610-1050y

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I suggest you test your RAM using the entry in the grub menu as well as make sure you have the latest BIOS. May help

"I want the latest version of Ubuntu" : next version will be released at end of this month. You could download the Beta1 of Natty 11.04, make a CD from it and check with a Live session (boot on CD and choose "Try" instead of "Install"). So you will know if next version will work correctly. Your issue looks more like a graphic card/chipset badly managed.

I'm trying to install natty on the same hardware, and I encounter the same problem. Even with the Live session I get the flashy color thing. It's an intel i5 core chipset with the integrated intel hd graphics, and that should all be supported by natty.

The install should work on any vga, right? so this kind of problem "can't happen" unless something truly pathological--or unrelated to video--is going on.

Add the bootoption:

nomodeset

May help

Yes. Then ubiquity goes. But still the system is nonfunctional. X crashes, and grep EE from Xorg.log shows three items:

open /dev/db0: No such file or directory
Lite-On Technology Corp. Wireless Device: failed to initialize for relative axes.
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Couldn't open mtdev device

I'm using the natty install cds handed out at UDS. AFAICT this is a 32-bit cd, which may be wrong, since the computer is a 64-bit computer. I assumed that it would be able to install the 64-bit version, but perhaps that was wrong. Still, that should be irrelevant to the failure of X to start.

And, since the installer is completely dependent on X (sigh), as is networkmanager, I am being harmed by the "ease" of installation of a graphical-only system. Is there any hope?

In addition, X seems to segfault, at least sometimes. Judging from the trace, the segfault is in mtdev_open from libmtdev.so.1.

Can we change the status to something other than "answered", since the actual problem is that 10.04, and 11.04, is failing to install on a touchsmart, and that this is a clear regression, since 9.04 reportedly works fine.

I'm a bit annoyed because I carefully checked the hardware against what is supported in natty, and all the devices in this computer should work.

I should add further that the screen looks nothing like the normal graphical installer screen. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall

Instead, I get a texty screen, but not the Debianish one described here as the "alternate installer" http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download

This is rather confusing. Perhaps I get a different screen because it's failing to make my video work. Or perhaps because... who knows??

I'd take photos of what I see and attach them here, but I don't see how.

You can use website imageshack.us to share pictures.
You could try the alternative installer, which will install latest video driver. But as 11.04 was just delivered, I presume you will get same video driver than from CD. I had a look at next Linux Kernel (39), they don't talk of new driver for your AMD Radeon GPU.

AMD Radeon GPU??

You can see the specs at HP. It has "Integrated Intel HD Graphics", specifically, those from the Core i5 650 processor set. This is a Clarkdale processor. Not sure why you're speaking of AMD or Radeon.

It's a pretty theory that I could use the alternative installer. My network is a password protected wireless network. Is that going to fly?

http://www.01net.com/fiche-produit/prise-main-9835/desktops-hp-touchsmart-610-1050fr/ Sorry, in French.

http://www.grosbill.com/4-hp_touchsmart_610_1050_-136646-ordinateurs_de_bureau-pc_multimedia?utm_source=ciao&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=136646-ordinateurs_de_bureau-pc_multimedia&utm_content=

The installations screens that I see are these with minor differences.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD?action=show&redirect=LiveCd

It's rather odd that this is so different from this one:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall

Also note that the actual errors from X (EE lines) are not about video, but about the keyboard and touchscreen input devices. (Though the /dev/fb0 absence is more than a little odd; I have no experience debugging udev to see what's going on there, and I don't know whether it should be visible or not.)

When X tries to start, I get some screen flashing and corrupted display as well.

That is for the 610-1050fr, which is different from the 610-1050y (check HP's own specification sheets at http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02743375&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&site=null&key=null&product=5090659 and http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02775278&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&site=null&tool=&query=610%201050fr&key=null&product=5079002.

Should be supported in kernels >= 2.6.33, and Xorg >= 2.11.

Hijacking this question is probably not the best idea. I've created a new one at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+question/158859.

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