Install Ubuntu8.04 official version on Samsung R18 laptop

First of all, most Samsung laptops now use Ati chips. The R18 series integrates xpress1250 graphics cards. Therefore, black screens appear during Ubuntu installation because no display chip is found. I installed Ubuntu8.04 last night. Now I want to explain in detail my installation process and hope it will inspire you. Remember to download the ati graphics card chip driver before installing it. Just download it from the ati website. The name is generally: ati-driver-installer-8-4-x

First of all, most Samsung laptops now use Ati chips. The R18 series integrates xpress 1250 graphics cards. Therefore, black screens appear during Ubuntu installation because no display chip is found. I installed Ubuntu8.04 last night. Now I want to explain in detail my installation process and hope it will inspire you.

Remember to download the ati graphics card chip driver before installing it. Just download it from the ati website. The name is generally: ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86_64.run, if the window system was previously installed, directly download to any drive letter.

First, download Ubuntu8.04 alternate. When it appears on the installation page, press F6 twice and select acpi = off and noacpi. Then you can install it, for detailed procedures, see the AlternativeCD installation tutorial on Ubuntu 8.04 (figure ).

After the installation is complete, a black screen is usually displayed. Therefore, when the Operating System Selection interface is displayed, select Ubuntu8.04 command line mode (that is, recovery mode) or select the second option. Enter the username and password, enter the command mode, and mount the window partition to the linux partition. The specific method is to create a folder in mnt, mkdir/mnt/win, the mount command mount ntfs/dev/sda0/mnt/win is just an example. You must mount the drive letter of your atigraphics card driver. You can try it on your own, maybe sda1 or something, as long as you find the driver in the mnt/win folder on the line, after the find you can install the atidriver, command is: sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86_64.run, the process will ask you to choose, the default line. Driver installation is complete,

Command: startx. Generally, you can access the graphic interface. After that, you can change the source, upgrade the source, and restart the source. Everything will be wonderful. You will have all future settings online for reference.

The driver can also be downloaded to the USB flash drive, which can be installed as long as it is attached to the following.