lspci says Display Controller: Intel 82830 CGC<br><br>All the suggestions to install this and that distribution instead are pretty moot, as I don't have a functional optical drive, and I can't boot from USB. I installed xubuntu on this a year or 2 ago before the optical drive died.<br>
<br clear="all">Tim Champion<br><a href="mailto:timchampion@gmail.com">timchampion@gmail.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Nuzum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
P.S. I've heard Ubuntu 9.10 is faster and uses less resources than Xubuntu 9.10. You may want to consider switching to that. You can't install from CD w/ only 128MB but you can certainly install w/ the alternate installer and dist-upgrade and run Ubuntu fine.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2010/1/7 newz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org" target="_blank">newz@bearfruit.org</a>></span><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There is a known problem with older Intel video chips. I looked at the release notes for 9.10 and 9.04 and don't see an exact description of your problem but I know the driver arch changed for intel cards and there were regressions during the alphas.<div>
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<br>If you have an intel card (before the 945 era) you may want to investigate this.<br><br>Send more details and I can try to help you futher.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Tim Champion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timchampion@gmail.com" target="_blank">timchampion@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm running Xubuntu on an old HP Omnibook - 1ghz p3 & 128MB or RAM. Last time I did a distribution upgrade to 9.10, it screwed up my screen resolution (only can get 800x600 on an LCD that only likes 1024x768), and in the course of tryig to fix it, I made it worse so now even the external monitor can't handle the refresh rate I set it to (don't know what it was)<br>
<br>To further my troubles, this thing won't boot from USB (yes, I updated the BOIS to the newest version), and the optical drive is pretty much dead. I have a pxe server that I've been trying to get it to boot from, but I'm not having much luck there.<br>
<br>What I CAN do is get to the recover console/menu with network/internet access. I tried the option for "repair broken packages" - didn't seem to do anything except go update my packages, which did nothting. can get to a command prompt from here, but I can't find any way to configure x outside of xwindows. Most of the stuff I'm finding from google tells me to do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I type that, and it just brings me back to another prompt with no errors. <br>
<br>I want to know how to do is go through some kind of screen resolution/refresh wizard that will let me fix my settings. <br><br>Also, I tried editing the xorg.conf manually, but most of the stuff is commented out saying:<br>
Commented out by update-manager, HAL is used now.<br><br>and I don't see any screen resolutions listed there like I'm used to seeing. Who wants to try and help? <br><font color="#888888"><br>Tim Champion<br><a href="mailto:timchampion@gmail.com" target="_blank">timchampion@gmail.com</a><br>
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