[plug] Ubuntu - baaahhh!!!!! Humbug

[Richard Meyer]

OK, now I do need help.

I've installed, and I've enabled all the alternate repositories in the
synaptic app.

Now how do I get my ATI X1400 (laptop graphics) working? I see an ATI
fglrx driver, but it's not for this card, but I installed it anyway.

Now what do I do to get a decent driver?

Another thing is the 3945 wifi card which seemed to be OK from the live
CD, now shows no response whatsoever. Any Ubuntu-specific ideas there?
Or do I start Googling?

Any help appreciated.

I'm trying Ubuntu since I'm getting less and less sure about my 1st
choice SUSE since the M$ agreement.

Cheers
RM

On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 15:09 +0900, Richard Meyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 14:49 +0900, Timothy White wrote:
> > On 12/26/06, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I decided to try Ubuntu on my lappy today (well, actually Mint, rather,
> > > and then Ubuntu), and I had the most irritating time.
> > >
> > > Both were quite happy to recognise the hardware on the lappy, so I told
> > > them to go ahead and install. I had partitions set up for them to use
> > > (formerly used by SLED 10), and both distros insisted that I hadn't
> > > allocated a root partition, even though I could see it there - I can
> > > assure you that if the lappy belonged to Canonical, Mr Shuttleworth
> > > would be crying over the expense of piecing all the molecules back
> > > together at this moment.
> > 
> > Having a partition, is different from having it assigned as a root
> > partition, especially if the partition contains data. What you need to
> > do, in the installer, is ether select the partition, and tell it the
> > mount point is / or, delete the partition, and tell the installer to
> > use the free space on the disk.
> 
> Um yes, I _DID_ tell it to use it as root or "/" if you prefer - it
> happened to be /dev/sda10 - so maybe Ubuntu can't count that high ;-)  -
> anyway the "alternative" CD worked, but it seems to be a problem that
> would make a W$ user halt in confusion (as it did me).
> > 
> > If you get stuck, give me a buzz, I'm sure I can help. Ubuntu is
> > normally a breeze to install!
> 
> It's installed now ---- I'm waiting for it to download all the fixes,
> and then it's time to install KDE.
> 
> I _DO_ thank you for the offer though.
> > 
> > Tim
> 
> Anybody using Linux Mint, BTW? I see good things about it. It appears to
> be an attempt to make Ubuntu into a "usable desktop".   ;-)  Actually I
> jest somewhat ....
> 
> 
-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
There are II types of people - those who can count like Romans and
those who can't.

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