ubuntu newbie

Kombatant

I knew I shouldn't have made that post

UberLord

Silly Gnobatant! erm - I mean Kombatant!

Traitor, hang him!

One of the great things about Gentoo is that because it's all about compiling, working with CVS tree's via ebuilds is a snap

Hence, e17 is a joy to use and upgrade

Kombatant

I know the great aspects of Gentoo; I've been a user for far too long... but sometimes, emerging stuff takes too long. Hence I made the switch to Ubuntu (after I imaged my Gentoo partition, just in case)

RIV@NVX

e17? b7? Do you guys (Kombatant and UberLord) have some Gentooized language other distro users can't understand?

UberLord

www.get-e.org

UberLord

Feh - emerging stuff doesn't take long. At least, not on my amd64 3500+ 1 Giger And if it's a big package, then I schedule it when I can do something else that doesn't require all my CPU (ie games).

But heh - I don't force distro's down peoples throats. I'm sure Ubuntu is a good distro (but I bet their network scripts aren't as good as mine)

bananaman

well to resurrect this thread a bit and slightly change the topic - do i need to install the ATI linux drivers for ubuntu in order to get a resolution of 1920x1200 or do i just change some config file somewhere (if so where and what do i type - i cant seem tio find it through the wonder of google)

i am literally a complete n00b, having installed ubuntu last night (my first play with any linux distro) and am comletely adrift, even after reading a series of so called "beginner" guides :/

i am not even sure if i need to install motherboard drivers etc. or whether the ones it installs wil work ok

any one help me at all??

thanks

nana

[EDIT] i also installed the AMD64 version - maybe a mistake in hindsight :/

Kombatant

What you have to do is simple really; open your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (as root), and look for the section called "Screen". Over there you have the resolutions that are supported for every colour depth. So, for instance, just edit the 24-bit depth line to show:
(meaning you just add "1920x1200" in the beginning of the modes), and as soon as you restart X you are set

bananaman

thanks for the help

i am just finding my way round, wondering what i am installing and getting used the it

for some reason the front page of driverheaven doesnt work properly - am on firefox 1.04 - the menu on the left is buggered

i thought i had installed java - maybe not :/

thanks for help komb

Kombatant

No worries, glad I could help

bananaman

right - well sorry to ask more stupid questions, but i am now installed (well at home) and after somehow crashing my second attempt i am now on attemp 3 and am being a bit more careful what i install. i have followed the ubuntu newbie guide and installed acrobat, flash, java, and possible a few others, but i am somewhat at a loss of what to do now.

most websites are working fine but for some reason the driverheaven page is buggered - the menu on the left is just a serios of really small empty boxes (no Forum etc.)

also, how important is it to actually install drivers for all the different parts of my comp (i am not gaming)?

My first impressions were pretty bad on the linux front - but now i have it working and keep finding things out like what the four mini screens do in the bottom right i am growing to like it more and more. the real problem i have is the lack of a sound card driver meaning that i cant listen to any music, as well as me being slightly lost on how i actually install drivers etc.

nana

RIV@NVX

That's a bug in Firefox - it's fixed for version 1.1, currently in pre-alpha stage.

Windows drivers won't quite work, and most of the drivers you need are integrated in Linux kernel.

What soundcard do you have?

bananaman

ah ok - i will try and install the latest version of firefox

i have the HDA Mystique 7.1 soundcard. It is pretty new and only had windows 32 and 64 bit drivers :/

thanks for answering my questions

linux is pretty scary :P

nana