The successful laptop install ubuntu 9.04 in my favorite, opened my eyes that it was paired with a laptop linux axioo TVW, which according to some forums and blogs that I can read, not linux friendly as SIS 671 chipset that is embedded in it. Although to be a bit sweaty and wrinkled her forehead in order to be the way linux distros on this laptop, I finally get to taste some linux distro to find suitable Linux distro for a beginner like me and a clear, according to my needs.

Linux distro I had tried to date are: ubuntu 9.04, kubuntu, mandriva 2009, LinuxMint 7, LinuxMint 7 RC1 KDE, PCLinuxOS 2009.2, and Fedora 11. Was a little greedy, but for the sake of my curiosity a little treat for the fat penguin, what's the harm? hehehe ..

Here are some ways to overcome blank screen when booting linux that I wear when trying on linux distro. Basically the same way, namely by adding additional parameters to the boot option.

• Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Boot option is to add noapic and nolapic.
• 7 and 7 LinuxMint LinuxMint KDE, because it is a derivative of Ubuntu, the parameters used are the same, ie noapic and nolapic.
• Fedora 11. Boot option to add the noapic, nolapic, acpi = off or acpi = ht vga = 788 and
• Mandriva. Boot option that should be added: noapic and nolapic
• PCLinuxOS. Although derived from Mandriva, but it should be added noapic and nolapic, it needs to be supplemented with acpi = off or acpi = ht.

Which could make the head of the headache and clogged utek Mandriva. The boot process stopped in the middle of the road, blank screen again. Having read read the same here, even where kekekek sure to read .. also finally see the light point. To cope with mandriva 2009 blank screen, press alt + F2. After the login prompt appears. Apparently, the detected SIS VGA is not supported by existing drivers, so it should relented first, using the vesa driver.

To change the driver to vesa, it must first be logged in as root and run drakx11. So I type root and enter root @ localhost so it appears. Type drakx11 so that a dialog to select the VGA drivers who want to use. Choose a resolution that will be used and then try to test whether the configuration of the road. After experimenting, it turns out I had to settle with the driver while Xorg | Vesa.

To continue booting, type the service-f dm. Mandriva 2009 a beautiful view and even then eventually appear on the screen lepi

The news is quite encouraging, the latest update mandriva, mandriva already provides SIS 671 VGA driver that is suitable for leptop me, so for the next version, hopefully I do not need right now to try mandriva serepot. hehehe ..

And it seems, this driver also has an integrated VGA on PCLinuxOS 2009.2 because I was not too problematic when trying this distro.

After experimenting, I finally fell in love with ubuntu flavor of mint, LinuxMint.

As a derivative of Ubuntu, LinuxMint has inherited the facilities and ease of ubuntu. In addition, there are some that really helped me ease, such as:

• Support for multimedia files that we use often, so we do not have to bother downloading mp3 codex, for example. This is very helpful, especially for users who do not have internet connection.
• Already installed nautilus. One of the interesting script I think is open as root. This script is very helpful when editing existing files postscript file system that must be edited using the root account. Simply right click the folder you want to edit, then click open as root, then this folder will open and we can mess like we login as root.
• A fresh look and is similar to the windows, thus smoothing the transition from windows to linux.

And many more other facilities that have not yet dared me know and I write for fear of being wrong hehehe .. understand, I am still a novice user .. so please share your experiences in the comment box. Nuwun mature.

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