Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu on a AMD K6-2 550MHz

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Author: Richard Setford
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu on a AMD K6-2 550MHz
okay, this is a new one on me! Just downloaded and booted to Xubuntu
7.10 as suggested by Tim.

Getting this error:

(initramfs) [48.664000] ata1.00: failed to set xrefmode (err_mask=0x40)

Plan b anyone?

Rich

hantslug@??? wrote:
> On Sunday 17 February 2008 12:46, alan c wrote:
>
>> A good guess would be the display driver. a quick dirty method is to
>> try more live CDs - DSL, Puppy, and of course knoppix (as big as
>> ubuntu), or others.
>>
>
> I recently had a case (strange, I know :-( ) where Kubuntu got the graphics
> right, but Ubuntu didn't. So you could try that too.
>
> http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php
>
> HTH
> Lisi
>
>