<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Tim Champion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timchampion@gmail.com">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;">
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.<div class="im">
<br></div></blockquote></div><br><br>You shouldn't need an optical drive to switch from xubuntu to ubuntu. I think in synaptic you can just install ubuntu-desktop package.<br><br>However, I don't know that it is relevant to your problem so I'd fix the display resolution first.<br>
<br>Does this seem to describe your problem? If so, there's a proposed fix:<br><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/466813">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/466813</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>
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