On 07/19/2007 05:08 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 yesterday, burnt it onto a DVD and booted, > live-DVD style. It was impressive: it even managed to find my Ethernet > card and set up an internet connection through my router, probably with > DHCP. Not sure what it was using as a name server, but what the heck. > > However, although it recognised my Matrox video card, it booted up in > 800 x 600 at 60Hz, which is too coarse a resolution and flickers > horribly on my 17" CRT monitor. I found the screen adjustment thingy, > and the only alternatives it presented me were 640 x 480 and 56 Hz. > Yuck!
That's easy enough to fix. You'll need to adjust your /etc/X11/xorg.conf settings. Drop me a note & I'll be happy to help you do it. > > I eventually found out how to start the installation (although this > doesn't seem to be documented). It started by opening a large window > asking me to select a language. English is just fine. So now I want to > click on the "OK" button. What "OK" button? The window is larger than > my screen, so presumably this button (and some sort of "cancel") are > down off the bottom of the screen somewhere. No problem, just make the > window smaller. Err... can't. The fine Ubuntu engineers seem to have > disabled this feature, perhaps because it "might confuse people". Just > hit <CR> and hope? That might work, up till the point where the answer > is more complicated than OK/Cancel or the question hidden at the bottom > of the screen is "Repartition your hard drive?" - I'd really rather not. > So I'm stuck. > > [Incidentally, I had to give up here, and when I clicked the button, > Ubuntu asked me "Abort the installation now?", giving me the two options > "quit" and "cancel". Wonderful ;-( Like Iain Paisley (the formerly > bigotted Northern Ireland politician), they seem to have trouble using > the "yes" word.] > And to keep this OOo oriented: Ubuntu have their own 'Ubuntu'ized' version of OOo, so some things work better (some import filters etc) and others do not (wizards, database actions etc). So if you do eventually install and use Ubuntu be prepared to either: 1) remove the Ubunu'ized version and install the OpenOffice.org version, or 2) report Ubuntu'ized OOo bugs to the Ubuntu bug reporting system (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/) rather than the OOo bug reporting system (http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
