[PLUG] Ubuntu with i810 video - widescreen, new kernel... uh-oh

[jeff <jeffv@op.net>]

I have a vague recollection of the i810 problem when I first put Ubuntu
on a Dell.  It took some research to locate the fix.  It was a tiny
program that did something to `convince' the BIOS that the video card
was not some generic unit with no memory.  The next Ubuntu found it by
itself.


>> You've got me there.  I don't like widescreen monitors and got this one
>> sort of by accident.  

It ain't just you.
I have an old HP laptop with a Celery chip.  It just got replaced by a
Dell widescreen 15.4".  The first thing I noticed was the screen was
ridiculously smaller and wider.  It actually looked a lot smaller,
regardless of the width.  It continues to frustrate me, moreso when I
occasionally pick up the HP laptop.  The Dell also doesn't seem to go
past 1280 by whatever and I like it pretty high.



Lastly, it's been a rough week at work.  It was actually uniform in its
awfulness, in that *everything* failed.  So what greets me at home but a
laptop that boots up and no longer has a wireless card.  When I say no
longer has, I mean that Ubuntu 7.10 with today's updates DOES NOT
RECOGNIZE the internal wireless that it picked up flawlessly when I
installed it.  I pulled up the hardware app and there's no bleedin' sign
of the card.

Impressed as hell, I sprung immediately to inaction and stared at the
thing for a while, with absolutely no idea what to do.  Being used to
Windows, I tried rebooting (to no avail).  The remedy presented itself
via the boot selector, where I suggested it boot into the previous
kernel.  Lo and bloody well behold, it remembered there was a wireless
card there.


I have the only laptop with Alzheimers.

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