On 5/2/11, Word Wizard <[email protected]> wrote: > The installer had the correct resolution, possibly because I edited the > boot-loader menu with the vga=795 command line addition. However, the > installation came up 640x480 with 320x240 as the only option, > regardless of any command line edits. I managed to download and > install the latest NVidia driver. Not that it did much good. It allowed > me to adjust the resolution to what I used in prior Ubuntu/Kubuntu > installations but didn't allow saving that configuration for subsequent > sessions. The "save" dialogue appeared but did not allow saving the Xorg > config file. Even invoking nvidia-settings as root did not help. > > That meant I'd be forced to re-adjust back from the standard 640x480 > each session. Not impossible of course, but a pitiful step backward from > the easy NVidia configuration of Jaunty Lucid and Maverick. Even then, > the display was corrupted when I invoked KDE's konsole app, perhaps > because I had reconfigured the font size. > > I could hack all this. I could install (as root) a prior xorg config > file which had the appropriate resolutions that I generated in Mepis > 8.0. I could edit the fstab file to set up my preferred mount points. > But why bother? Those fundamental mechanisms, as well as the numerous > desktop bugs in Unity, should be fully operative in the installation of > any respectable release. Shuttleworth will sure alienate any potential > convert from Windows7 with this ungodly mess, and for what purpose?
<snip> I am listening to all the chatter.. I am running Lucid and guess I will just continue. It works fine and updates once a week. -- Marvin J. Kosmal Disclaimer: This email is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of Farmer Marvin or any of the hens. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
