Having seen the damage that automatix can do to any sane package management system, I wouldn't really recommend it any more.
A good idea ruined by developers more used to Micrisift IMO... Steve On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:30:01 +1300 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have had a similar problem with Gutsy. > > Go to system>restricted drivers manager and see what driver has been > loaded. Ensure the resticted drivers box has been ticked. > > If X dosen't start (not uncommon) then do the dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg.conf thing. > > the next move is to down load automatix > www.getautomatix.com ver 2.0.6 > and run the drivers and fonts module in that. quite a long download. > > That sorted both my desktop and Lappy > > > just my opinion, but I have found it pays to be VERY cautious with the > information given in the Ubuntu forums > > Cheers Chris T > > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:46 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: > > I have a fresh AMD64 Gutsy install that hasn't gone too smoothly. The > > key annoyance that I'm stumped about is the aweful way fonts are > > rendered - in certain places only. If I go to System Settings, Monitor > > & Display, I have finally managed to get the screen resolution to read > > 1440x900 (correct for this LCD monitor), the graphics card is detected > > as NVIDIA GeForce 6, driver nv. Earlier I found that I had to download > > and install the latest nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2 > > in order to get X to start. I'm not certain which driver I am now > > using, whether this is the nv driver, or the NVIDIA one (I'm still > > fairly confused about drivers in linux). In Appearance -> Fonts I have > > anti-aliasing turned on and have tried various settings in there to > > improve things without success. > > > > Fonts in this email composition window appear OK, menus in Thunderbird > > are OK, but basically any KDE related fonts (window title bars, K menu, > > konqueror, konsole) all look terrible. > > > > Can anyone suggest where I have gone wrong and what I need to do? > > > > Cheers, > > Roger >
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