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Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
Game_boy wrote:Nitrodist: Dual screens should be more stable and are easier to set up with most being out-of-the-box, according to the release notes.
I also have the beta and apart from a display issue (with ATI having closed drivers, not Ubuntu's fault) which I quickly fixed it's better than Vista despite being a beta.
It feels much more responsive than Vista (even though I have a good computer), looks better (Compiz), and runs my supposedly Vista-compatible games stabler and faster than Vista does (Wine).
Plinth wrote:I tried it, but was repelled immediately, as I have been by most versions since 6.x, by the inability of Ubuntu to correctly detect my monitor and allow me to change my screen resolution. This is seriously annoying. To add to that, they have almost every monitor model BUT mine. Mine is a ViewSonic E70F (old, and dying CRT), and they have listed E70-1 to about E70-8 and then E70F+ and E70F+b and all sorts, and whenver I try to change to any of these the monitor application thingy just crashes, not even allowing a test or anything. Gaaaah
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
Heiwashin wrote:Plinth wrote:I tried it, but was repelled immediately, as I have been by most versions since 6.x, by the inability of Ubuntu to correctly detect my monitor and allow me to change my screen resolution. This is seriously annoying. To add to that, they have almost every monitor model BUT mine. Mine is a ViewSonic E70F (old, and dying CRT), and they have listed E70-1 to about E70-8 and then E70F+ and E70F+b and all sorts, and whenver I try to change to any of these the monitor application thingy just crashes, not even allowing a test or anything. Gaaaah
use generic monitor with your resolutions, as long as you know your refresh rates you won't have any problems...
*edit* anyone that uses linux has many more problems than that, and honestly, i'm pretty sure you have more problems with windows than this problem which could have been solved by just a quick mod on your xorg.conf file...
titan wrote:Heiwashin wrote:Plinth wrote:I tried it, but was repelled immediately, as I have been by most versions since 6.x, by the inability of Ubuntu to correctly detect my monitor and allow me to change my screen resolution. This is seriously annoying. To add to that, they have almost every monitor model BUT mine. Mine is a ViewSonic E70F (old, and dying CRT), and they have listed E70-1 to about E70-8 and then E70F+ and E70F+b and all sorts, and whenver I try to change to any of these the monitor application thingy just crashes, not even allowing a test or anything. Gaaaah
use generic monitor with your resolutions, as long as you know your refresh rates you won't have any problems...
*edit* anyone that uses linux has many more problems than that, and honestly, i'm pretty sure you have more problems with windows than this problem which could have been solved by just a quick mod on your xorg.conf file...
I think that the point here is that it should work out of the box. According to their page about the Desktop Edition, "Ubuntu 'Just Works'". This is an example of Ubuntu not working. I've had similar issues getting it to install certain software. Maybe this release will fix some of that. I'm also going to try PCLinuxOS and see how that works out for me. Normally, I'm a Gentoo fan, but sometimes I'd like the thing to just work with all the pretties.
Nitrodist wrote:titan wrote:Heiwashin wrote:Plinth wrote:I tried it, but was repelled immediately, as I have been by most versions since 6.x, by the inability of Ubuntu to correctly detect my monitor and allow me to change my screen resolution. This is seriously annoying. To add to that, they have almost every monitor model BUT mine. Mine is a ViewSonic E70F (old, and dying CRT), and they have listed E70-1 to about E70-8 and then E70F+ and E70F+b and all sorts, and whenver I try to change to any of these the monitor application thingy just crashes, not even allowing a test or anything. Gaaaah
use generic monitor with your resolutions, as long as you know your refresh rates you won't have any problems...
*edit* anyone that uses linux has many more problems than that, and honestly, i'm pretty sure you have more problems with windows than this problem which could have been solved by just a quick mod on your xorg.conf file...
I think that the point here is that it should work out of the box. According to their page about the Desktop Edition, "Ubuntu 'Just Works'". This is an example of Ubuntu not working. I've had similar issues getting it to install certain software. Maybe this release will fix some of that. I'm also going to try PCLinuxOS and see how that works out for me. Normally, I'm a Gentoo fan, but sometimes I'd like the thing to just work with all the pretties.
EXACTLY. I don't want to edit any file, or anything like that. I just want it to work. No text editor, just a simple thing that detects what I have and I can set it to, like right click properties on the desktop -> settings -> set the resolution or dual screen setup.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
thecoldanddarkone wrote:Game_boy wrote:Nitrodist: Dual screens should be more stable and are easier to set up with most being out-of-the-box, according to the release notes.
I also have the beta and apart from a display issue (with ATI having closed drivers, not Ubuntu's fault) which I quickly fixed it's better than Vista despite being a beta.
It feels much more responsive than Vista (even though I have a good computer), looks better (Compiz), and runs my supposedly Vista-compatible games stabler and faster than Vista does (Wine).
Um, BS, http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd ... /page3.asp
Unless wine is faster than xp
notfred wrote:It's getting better, under Ubuntu it's just System->Preferences->Screen Resolution
I'll admit that it only works if everything is autodetected correctly, but then the same is true for Windows and the autodetection is getting better all the time.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:Yeah, refresh rates are really annoying when dealing with linux as there's no easy way to change them (and my dad isn't big on editing xorg.conf files)
titan wrote:Usacomp2k3 wrote:Yeah, refresh rates are really annoying when dealing with linux as there's no easy way to change them (and my dad isn't big on editing xorg.conf files)
From my experience, the refresh rate has always been set to the highest compatible rate. Environments might be a bit different from the window managers that I've used though.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
Heiwashin wrote:titan wrote:Usacomp2k3 wrote:Yeah, refresh rates are really annoying when dealing with linux as there's no easy way to change them (and my dad isn't big on editing xorg.conf files)
From my experience, the refresh rate has always been set to the highest compatible rate. Environments might be a bit different from the window managers that I've used though.
Yea i was gonna say that, but i wasn't positive so i left it alone, but yea, my screen has a max refresh of 58hz on 1280x800 and it auto sets that if i pick max resolution, even in the generic lcd 1280x800 setting.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:Heiwashin wrote:titan wrote:Usacomp2k3 wrote:Yeah, refresh rates are really annoying when dealing with linux as there's no easy way to change them (and my dad isn't big on editing xorg.conf files)
From my experience, the refresh rate has always been set to the highest compatible rate. Environments might be a bit different from the window managers that I've used though.
Yea i was gonna say that, but i wasn't positive so i left it alone, but yea, my screen has a max refresh of 58hz on 1280x800 and it auto sets that if i pick max resolution, even in the generic lcd 1280x800 setting.
For an LCD it's not that big of a deal, but even when I set the resolution of the 19" on that machine to 1024x768, 60hz was still the only option. Probably has something to do with me completely redoing the video cable of that monitor though. I'm sure it no longer passes those bits that tell it the compatible range. It's just much easier in Windows to uncheck the "hide options this display cannon support" option in such cases.
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Hance wrote:Ok i have a bitch about Gutsy. The new desktop switcher thingy that changes between desktop one and two wants to change every time i touch the side of my touch pad where the scroll part is. I gotta find a way to kill it.
root@ubuntu:~# apt-cache search synaptic
cpad-common - common files to support the Synaptics cPad driver kernel modules
cpad-kernel-dev - kernel header for the Synaptics cPad driver
cpad-kernel-source - source for the Synaptics cPad driver
gsynaptics - configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X server
ksynaptics - Synaptics TouchPad configuration tool for KDE
libsynaptics-dev - library to access the synaptics touch pad driver (development)
libsynaptics0 - library to access the synaptics touch pad driver (runtime)
qsynaptics - Synaptic TouchPad configuration tool
tpconfig - configure touchpad devices
xfree86-driver-synaptics - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org/XFree86 server
libapt-front-dev - High-level library for managing Debian packages
libept-dev - High-level library for managing Debian packages
synaptic - Graphical package manager
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server