Re: [PLUG] What list is this again?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On Thursday 04 October 2007 14:28:45 Chad Waters wrote:
> Ubuntu 7.10

I've been using it about a week now.  Since Mythbunu is based on Gutsy, 
I'm using it there, and I did a clean install to a "misc. workstation" 
box, partly to try and use the Myth frontend, thus far without success.

I've had some screen resolution problems with Gutsy, but I've always had 
those to some extent on this machine.  I attribute that to an old/crappy 
embedded video card [1] on a Dell Optiplex something or other.  The 
circa 1994 Compaq KVM probably doesn't help matters, esp. since the 
monitor is a wide-screen Dell 2005FPW.  Yeah, I know, heckofa combination.

The new, supposedly fail-safe (it didn't work for me) displayconf-gtk 
tool is an improvement, but graphics stuff is still too hard for the 
average user.  IOW, I had to hack the xorg.conf, again, to get it to 
more-or-less work.

Having said that, everything else seems great so far.  I have the 
perception that it boots *way* faster than Dapper (6.06) did, but I 
haven't timed it or anything.  (Likely at least partly the result of 
switching /bin/sh to dash in 6.10+, see 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh.)

To be honest though, I've mostly used it to play with Myth and for 
surfing with FF (2.0.0.6).  I did just fire up Evolution after the 
previous comments.  It looks a lot better than the last time I tried it!

Later,
JP

[1] lspci says: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 
82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
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