I am not sure of the cause but I keep 9.10, 10.04, and 10.10 around when people ask me about the operating system I'm using. If they are at all competent, I let them boot from the 10.04 CD and see if the wireless works. If it doesn't I try 10.10 and finally 9.10. Seems one of them will usually work with whatever laptop they have, but most have a problem with one of the versions.
I downloaded 10.10 the day it came out and could not get it working at all. Then I waited for a month or so before downloading again, and everything worked on my laptop. Still, these days 10.04 is my baby, and everything else goes in a VM. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, Mike. I kind of thought that I had already tried this > since I had tried a post Maverick kernel from a ppa and that didn't work. > However, > I happened to have a 10.10 variant live CD laying around so I booted from > it, opened a > terminal and launched glxgears. Much to my surprise and delight, it came > right up. For further testing, > I installed an game requiring glx / 3d and it worked fine, too. Thanks for > the advice. > > My dream fix at this point would be to only upgrade the packages from Lucid > to Maverick that I need to make it > work (linux kernel and xorg / intel.) However, I will do a full upgrade to > Maverick if that is what it takes. > > Thanks again. See you soon. > > Robert > > > Mike B. wrote: > > Try loading a 10.10 iso and see if it supports your card.. That's > really about the only advice I have at the moment. > > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Can't make the meeting today. Sorry. I'll think Apple thoughts though. > > One linux problem I have been attempting to solve lately is to get > > 3D acceleration / glx enabled on the following integrated graphics card: > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation > 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03) > > Currently it is on a 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04 install. > > After extensive web searching, I have attempted several xorg.conf edits > and even a patched newer kernel from a PPA (2.6.37), and have > had no luck. Any good advice would be appreciated (bad advice not so much.) > > Thanks. > > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > > > > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
