I blame you, too! On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Ricardo Aráoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you people got me winded on KUbuntu, and seeing the last one I tried > was 8.04 I thought I'd give 8.10 a try. > So I download it, burn a cd and boot. Beautiful! I love the new > looks.... but no wireless. Shit!
Haven't we discussed this before? I suggested before that thinking that you could get your wireless running without a wired connection was a bad idea. Installing a release version without access to the many patches and updates is going to cause trouble. A little research will tell you if you can use a firmware-cutter or use ndiswrapper around a Windows driver to get your wireless to work. > So I start snooping around and I get to the desktop settings, do a > couple of changes and zap! my screen goes weird. Zap?! You set the settings incorrectly and they don't display correctly. The computer did what you told it to. You fix this with Ctrl-Alt-Minus to lower the resolution or Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart the X server. Or drop to a terminal window with Ctrl-Alt-1 and change the /etc/X11/xorg.conf settings using an editor. > Nothing to be done so I > think I'll reboot and start again..... No such luck! When I reboot the > same weird colours receive me and there is nothing to be done. "Nothing to be done" isn't exactly accurate. It just may be that you aren't aware of the many features that Linux has to offer you: adjustable desktop resolutions, access to consoles where you can read the logs, change the settings back to the way they were before or try configuring them differently. Hmm, interesting. Sounds like the video card got confused and stayed that way across a reboot. Did you try to turn the machine off and then on? > It seems > these idiots, in spite of the option saying try ubunto without modifying > your system, have written my preferences somewhere and now I am stuck. I think you may be mistaken about the "idiots." This system works for a lot of people. Perhaps you are misunderstanding what you are seeing. If you turn on the machine and reboot with the Ubuntu disk again, it should work the way it did the first time. But I really don't think you should try. Or at least not blame it on "you people" or "those idiots." > Nice! I guess if I google a bit (or much) and investigate I'll be able > to repair it. But I don't feel like it! Well, that settles that! > If the demo can get someone into > a corner and will require expertise to get out of it then I don't want > the bloody system. Well, then you certainly want to avoid that "Windows" stuff. > It is not ready yet for the general public! And I am > not in the mood to start learning once again how to get around debian. > So it will be next year... maybe. It seems to me that you're not approaching this problem from the right angle. Installing an OS is not something "the general public" should be doing, whether that's Windows or OS X or BSD or Linux. Most members of this list are computer professionals and should be able to do this, with proper review, preparations and care, making backups, a copy of the disk image, a spare copy of the Master Boot Record. Many of us got our first machine running at a Linux Installfest. I'd encourage you to consider that, too. And if you really want to run a Linux machine, joining the local Linux User Group and a few Linux mailing lists is probably a good idea. [NF] posts in ProFox are really not the way to get support. But, perhaps you should wait til next year. -- Ted Roche ... who upgraded his T61 from Fedora 9 to 10 over his wireless connection last night... Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
