hp g26t
i purchased the laptop with money from tax return, and it shipped to me. i picked it up on friday and unboxed it immediately only to find the keyboard wasn’t what i thought it was going to b (first unmet expectation). i took it home, ran the dvd backup software first, then shoved my fedora 12 (64-bit) dvd into the player for the reboot. the installation went smoothly. i ran the upgrade next (since i hadn’t previously downloaded a f12 respin image and didn’t want to wait for it).
when it rebooted, i noticed the resolution was still stuck on 1024×768. this thing does better, i reasoned. i copied the xorg.conf file to my home directory and rebooted. when it restarted, i had no screen. i rebooted again. same deal. i tried to ctrl+alt+f2 to a straight up text login. nothing. all the f-keys gave me nothing.
i tried rebooting into vesa mode, nomodeset, noacpi…all the same blank nothingness. i set my init to 3 and booted to a command line. checked intel hardware, looked on the google for any hope of someone posting a solution or even a sympathetic blog post of the same problem. nothing out there about it. this machine is too new for that.
after asking for more advice in the #fedora channel on freenode (irc), i realized i’d found an intel video driver the linux kernel didn’t support. i decided it was best to send it back. which i did.
now, i’m back to where i was just before i found this laptop. my second interest laptop isn’t a strong enough want to just simply purchase it. maybe if i wait, i’ll find something i want when they put out some new laptops.
