[vox-tech] Replaced FC with Kubuntu in Dual Boot env.

[Alex Mandel]

Most of the oddities I've heard of actually occur with both Nvidias and 
Radeons although they are different drivers and not always for the same 
reason.

Did you install ATI drivers?

Maybe boot with the install disk in rescue or some other way that lets 
you into edit the xorg and temporarily change the Driver "ATI ..." so 
that it can't find it. (Saw this solution for "nvidia" to "nv") 
Hopefully that'll at least get you in to figure out what's wrong.

I did also confirm that check battery is the last thing Kubuntu does 
before bringing up the login page.

Alex


Richard Crawford wrote:
> All right, I finally bit the bullet and installed Kubuntu on my laptop.  The 
> MBR survived, and GRUB updated normally.
> 
> Unfortunately, the computer won't start now.  When I boot, I get as far as 
> "Checking battery state [ ok ]", and then the computer hangs.  I've done some 
> research and found suggestions that this may be related to the NVidia 
> drivers, but since this computer has an ATI Radeon card, I doubt that's the 
> issue.  I'm booting with noapic nolapic acpi=off options, but none of those 
> have done a lick of good.
> 
> Any suggestions, anyone?
>