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Xubuntu from XP

Asked by Steve Schilz on 2007-04-10

I installed Xubuntu 6.10 over Win XP (Dell Inspiron 1100) and I am thrilled with it! And now for the "however:" I am having intermittent issues where Xubuntu just freezes and I must hard shut down and restart. Now, I can't say for sure that this is software or hardware issue. I was having "blue screen of death" issues in XP. One of the issues was related to a driver for old nVidia RIVA chip set. I don't know if this could be causing my issues in Xubuntu. nVidia has updated legacy driver but I am not clear how to run that in linux sys. Can anyone direct me to an appropriate post, tutorial, etc. to educate me on this? I want to run linux, not gatesware, on this laptop, but I need to learn the basics to help get me through the Win-hangover...

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said on 2007-04-10:

The following page details how to install the nvidia binary driver:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

You might also want to consider running a memtest from the grub boot menu (press ESC when GRUB counts down at bootup). Leave it running overnight at least to see if there are issues with memory.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said on 2007-04-10:

Here are some general pages that can help you with the beginnings:

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

Here are some screencasts, you can watch like videos that are tutorials for the beginning:

http://doc.ubuntu.com/screencasts/

For the hang ups. Could you look in the logs if you find any error messages?

/var/log/dmesg
/var/log/messages

I hope this helps