[TriLUG] Ubuntu on my laptop, wow

[Rick DeNatale]

On 6/27/05, Jason Faulkner <jasonlf at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/27/05, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the sense of "mob rules" I decided to give Ubuntu a try and I
> > installed in on a Compaq desktop.  The video card was not recognized
> > so I was stuck with 640x480 only.  Bummer.  I reinstalled Knoppix on
> > the HD later that save evening.  I'll tinker around with it more, but
> > I needed something more usable right away so I had to dump Ubuntu.
> > Too bad, it had a nice look and feel to it.
> >
> 
> It did that to me too, I had to manually fix my xorg.conf

I had the opposite problem. FC3 insisted on 640x480 for my Thinkpad
A21e whereas Ubuntu/Kubuntu runs it at 1024x768 which I beleive is the
best that it can do.