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October 15, 2005
Ubuntu, part XIV
Well, I installed 5.10. Ubuntu still doesn't offer to let me configure DSL at install time. It hairs out configuring the network, and even the manual config doesn't offer to help me get DSL going. It's either DHCP or static.
Next, no nvidia driver for Xorg. So I'm stuck in 640x480 until I figure that out. I must've done something under 5.04, where I am now, and forgotten about it. Couldn't Nvidia just let that stuff be open by now? This chipset is 2003 technology, or maybe 2002.
The desktop is slightly cooler, in that the partitions got mounted and came up right away.
I did have some trouble getting everything going in the beginning.First I had the printer turned on. It was doing it's flake-the-BIOS-out routine, and the installer got hung twice, once while I was trying to create file systems. After I turned that off, things went smoothly until I got stuck in 640x480 without network. It's not that I'm really stuck to be sure, it's just that it's not smooth enough.
Posted by Mark at October 15, 2005 05:41 PM
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