On Sunday 16 May 2010 21:54:14 Rony wrote: > Hello, > > There is no xorg.conf in the X11 directory
Xorg -configure or simply copy an existing one to /etc/X11/. X will use it and overide automatic settings if it exists. > and > on the net many others too have reported facing this problem with > older 845 mobos. > There is no text based or gui control to adjust > display related settings like refresh rate etc. With kdm, the control center - peripherals - display settings. Gnome has something similiar. > As with other > modern distros before it, it appears that slowly Linux You mean ubuntu?. > is going the > Windows way where the simple text file configuration is being > replaced by system automated processes and the user is loosing > control of his system unless he/she is an advanced expert. At least > in Windows there are GUIs for hardware setups to replace or update > drivers. Not quite. With linux distros the text conf files continue to exists and will over ride the app defaults. BTW i hate the gconf madness. > > Ubuntu appears to be too interested in racing ahead of other > distros even at the cost of stability. This makes the Ubuntu system > good for Beta testers and as a latest toy but not good for serious > users. Ubuntu is debian unstable + testing. So it is going to be unstable in exchange for the latest. Use debian stable + backports + self compiled (and self tested). > There should be some automated benchmarking software that > tests their distros on various machines and reports problems, in > simulated conditions. That way they don't have to depend only on > filed bug reports to correct problems. Hardware in India are not the same as available elsewhere. Consequently there is no alternative to thorough selftest. > For a change, I downloaded > the Fedora 12 live + install CD and it looks quite good. Ubuntu > 10.04 uses the 2.6.32 kernel and Fedora 12 uses 2.6.31, very close. > The live CD boots fine with 512 MB RAM. Its installation was the > fastest I've seen as it simply copies the entire cd image to the > hard disk, reboots and then adds new users. This live CD installs > only on Ext4 partitions. It comes with gnome and has no OpenOffice. > I took the opportunity to download Oxygen Office 3 and installed > its rpms. OxygenOffice has better compatibility with Office2007 > files. > In both the distros Google Earth crashes in my Intel 845 mobo with > a requirement for a forced restart. In Fedora12, the display goes > not get garbled, it simply freezes. However Google earth works fine > in my Acer Laptop with 915 chipset and Lenny. However due to its > 256 MB RAM, its painfully slow. Afaik googlearth requires atleast 2D acceleration and hughe amounts of ram. So i845 boards wont work anyway. A reasonable comparison would be to test GE on doze, then linux on a 845. > > Like Vista and Windows 7, it looks like those who want to use the > latest Linux distros will have to upgrade their systems for better > stability and display support. Using unstable wont make a difference to stability on any hardware. If you use 2d/3d accel apps, you must use 2d/3d accel hardware. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
