Let's post your Gibbon 7.10 laptop experience

[Delvien]

i hope its not just me, but i have a T61 thinkpad,
and i tried installing 7.10 64bit edition AND the x86 one ,neither worked.
i got the black screen of death.
and i also changed BIOS mode to compatability AND ahci.

Where are you getting the black screen of death?

Also if you dont have enough ram you cant really run a live CD, 512 is a good amount.

Try the "alternate" cd, its not a liveCD and you will get less errors, also check to make sure the MD5 is alright after you burn the CD.

[paOol]

i choose ' start or install ubuntu'
it goes to the next screen, and i see a bunch of stuff loading and [OK].
a minute after everything is loaded, black screen

i even tested the cd, and it said no errors found.
i'll try the alternate cd

[BoulderGeek]

Did you move the mouse? Same thing happened to me, but under the black screen was the desktop. Just move your cursor and I'd expect to see the desktop.

At least, that's how it worked for me on multiple boots with the Live CD.

[chapmanenskog]

i hope its not just me, but i have a T61 thinkpad,
and i tried installing 7.10 64bit edition AND the x86 one ,neither worked.
i got the black screen of death.
and i also changed BIOS mode to compatability AND ahci.

I have t61 also and have the same problem.
You may try to use the Safe Graphics mode on the live CD, it works =). You may also find http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
useful on using linux on thinkpad machines

[rockharder]

Rock,

Were you able to setup audio correctly? Just installed 7.10 on my V3000Z and don't have sound. Other than that there doesn't seem to be any major hiccups.

My experience on 7.04 is to recompile the alsa stuff. Will get back to you my result.

[AuroraS]

Hmm... I find that standby doesn't work properly anymore. In Edgy and Feisty, I was able to resume from standby properly (by pressing the power button). In Gutsy, it seems like it responds and tries to wake from standby if I press ANY button, but it just doesn't get back to the desktop and it hangs...

Oh well. I like everything else about Gutsy so far.

[Ethyriel]

This would not be a Ubuntu Gutsy problem, it is a problem with firefox, probably incompatibility of version for extentions and addons and the version of firefox installed.

God, I hope not seeing that they're some pretty common extensions. Open Book, Adblock Plus, the Qute theme... and it's just 2.0.0.6, I've installed these same extensions under every version for ages under Arch and Windows.

It's a problem with EVERY extension, I've tried random popular extensions that I've gotten first hand reports of working, like flashgot. I did find a bug report, if anyone is interested.

[Sredni Vashtar]

My experience on 7.04 is to recompile the alsa stuff. Will get back to you my result.

How did it go?
I recompiled ALSA following the ubuntu guide for 7.04 (hda-intel howto) and discovered that /proc/asound/card0 does not exist.
I used version 1.0.15.

Still no sound and I can't launch alsaconf as well (damn sudo, I want my su back EDIT: I have it back! Now i want a root login!!!).
In kanotix it worked like a charm.

[BoulderGeek]

Still no sound and I can't launch alsaconf as well (damn sudo, I want my su back EDIT: I have it back! Now i want a root login!!!).
In kanotix it worked like a charm.

That sucks about the sound. I'd like a solution for the sound driver as well.

For root login, in a shell, type 'sudo su -'

Then, you'll have a root shell with a hash prompt (#).

'passwd root' to create/change the root password.

Then, you can log in as root from the xdm/gdm login screen if you set it to user fields (not auto-login or pictures).

[rockharder]

How did it go?
I recompiled ALSA following the ubuntu guide for 7.04 (hda-intel howto) and discovered that /proc/asound/card0 does not exist.
I used version 1.0.15.

Still no sound and I can't launch alsaconf as well (damn sudo, I want my su back EDIT: I have it back! Now i want a root login!!!).
In kanotix it worked like a charm.

All I tested are 1.0.12 and 1.0.14. Alsa in Ubuntu for HP is always one step behind.