Ubuntu installed

Thanks to dda, my desktop now dual boots Windows XP and Ubuntu.  I really, really like Ubuntu so far, even though the screen shifts slightly to the left at 1280px x 1024px resolution and I haven’t yet figured out how to correct it.

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10 Comments

  1. estebanko your flag
    Posted May 1, 2007 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

    If you use LCD there usually is an auto adjustment function. That should take care of the offset problem.

  2. toru your flag
    Posted May 1, 2007 at 5:54 pm | Permalink

    My display has an auto adjustment function as estebanko suggested. But if yours don’t. Try running sax2.

    I use openSUSE. Have you tried XGL/Compiz/Beryl yet? It’s awesome.

  3. sewing your flag
    Posted May 2, 2007 at 1:35 am | Permalink

    Be very careful: if Ubuntu is a Linux-based operating system, then it’s a slippery slope from there to the UNIX-based Mac OS/X. dda is trying to convert you to becoming a Mac user! Beware!

  4. Netizen Kim your flag
    Posted May 2, 2007 at 6:38 am | Permalink

    I installed Ubuntu on my floortop several months ago. It was in vain because it didn’t support WEP encryption, which is what I use, for wireless networking.

  5. seouldout your flag
    Posted May 2, 2007 at 8:16 am | Permalink

    Maybe this will help with your WEP issue.

    Following the links you’ll find a list of supported NIC’s, and swapping out an unsupported one is easy enough on a desktop.

  6. R. Elgin your flag
    Posted May 2, 2007 at 8:56 am | Permalink

    I like this operating system a little better than Ubuntu. :o)

  7. sewing your flag
    Posted May 2, 2007 at 9:40 am | Permalink

    R. Elgin, that is so brilliant, it brought tears to my eyes. NOW I know why customers’ servers sometimes inexplicably stop working! My goodness, I must have seen that once over 30 years ago and completely forgotten about it. Good times, good times.

  8. estebanko your flag
    Posted May 2, 2007 at 12:05 pm | Permalink

    Netizen Kim, which laptop do you have? I installed Edge on Dell 8600 using ndiswrapper. Allows you to load Windows drivers into Linux. Flaky from time to time, works about 90% of the time. I know they could definitely do little better. BTW, thanks for the link seouldout

  9. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted May 3, 2007 at 9:56 am | Permalink

    I’m still a bit weary of installing Linux in my box, but if Unbutu recognizes Windows drivers, that might be enough to make me try it out. You don’t have to ‘mount’ the drives for them to function anymore, right?

  10. Pyotr your flag
    Posted May 3, 2007 at 9:52 pm | Permalink

    SomeguyinKorea, Just download the Ubuntu disk and you can boot from it without installing first. That should give you an idea of whether the thing will run.

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