scoot1212 wrote:How many watts are you using in Ubuntu?
Scott

Um... I have no idea. Obviously I need more info in order to respond intelligently to you.

Place new order through fatwallet and cancel previous order by phone. You get the cashback, and get what you wanted. If there was a promotion that ended, however, you're obviously better with the original order. The old rule of thumb was that anything short of doubling the processor speed was undete...

Well, let me tell you what a great price is, and you can try to judge from that. There was just a deal from Lenovo recently involving a clearance on cto T60's in combination with a 13.33% off coupon, and 10% cashback. I picked up a 2ghz 7200 (4 meg cache) c2d, with wsxga+ screen, 1 gig memory (singl...

Thanks! That did it; everything seems to be working now, I even get a "shutdown" option after hitting the "off" button. Now all I need is a good set of ati drivers for acceleration, etc. I'll look forward to when you can outline the process for installing the Catalyst Linux 7.11 driver.

If I decided to throw in the towel and try 8.04, is the install smart enough to overwrite my previous installation and leave the partitions as they are?

Well... I logged in, and it took me to the desktop. The update manager tells me that everything is up to date. I can't enable the restricted drivers because it can't seem to find xorg-driver-fglrx. I got the wireless going, btw, so I was connected to the Internet. When I tried to close (hit the red ...

Partition Magic should do fine with Linux partitions. I had no trouble using it on ext2 and ext3 partitions. It does tend to get a little fussy if the slightest inconsistency with the old DOS partitioning rules is found. It says it found errors in the table and wanted to "correct" them. I figured t...

Ok... Installed, I think. I get the same video issue going from boot loader, hit alt-f1, and login prompt comes up. Haven't gone beyond that yet. I assume I have to modify something in the startup process to use STARTX to avoid all the screen retries and boot normally? Tried to look at the partition...

Yes it is. I made a mistake with my directions, so I edited my last post. It now says to press: Alt+F1 I hope this helps. When I get a chance I'll post a howto on how to update your driver to ATI Linux Driver 7.11. Just as a warning don't try installing 7.12. If you do, you will lose your native sc...

You don't have to use "safe video mode." Once your start the livecd up your screen will flicker a couple of times and then you'll get a blue screen. When the blue screen pops up, press: Alt+F2 Afterwards, type: ''startx" This should bring you into the livecd so you can install Ubuntu. Would this bl...

When booting to the live cd use "safe video mode". Then install after it boots up. Thank you for the response (also to tylerwylie). I've tried that as well. Everything proceeds, and I can see various things loading, up until GNOME, and then, after several unsuccessful tries to intialize the display...

Which drivers are you trying? the fglrx ones? Heck if I know; whatever is on the installation cd. All I know is that it's supposed to be UBUNTU v7.10. I'll be happy to look, but you'll have to tell me what to look for, and where to look for it. :oops: It occurs to me that maybe I'm not clarifying m...

tylerwylie wrote:What video chipset?

ati x1400 - resolution 1680x1050

Installation seems to die when Gnome is loading, so I think the native resolution is the problem. The install seems to max out at 1400x1050.

I'm trying to install, and the installation dies after having a problem with the display (at least I think that's what's happening). Is this a known problem with high-res widescreens? Any ideas? I did look at the post on a solved video problem, but it didn't seem to address my particular problem, si...

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