[ale] New Distros, X11 Blues

[William Fragakis]

Booting a knoppix disk is always an option and much faster than an
install.

btw, are you using an LCD?

wf

On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:34 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> John Mills wrote:
> > Very tempting. (That's 'Plan C'.)
> 
> The reason I say this is because there were changes in X video detection 
> between
> 7.10 and 8.04.
> 
> If 7.10 works then simply copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then blow it all 
> away with 8.10.
> when 8.10 is done copy the xorg.conf back and you should be in great shape!
> 
> 7.10 is "old" but it will only be on there for 30 minutes.
> 
> >
> >  - JMM
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> >
> >>> Any suggestions on getting this to work or what may be going wrong?
> >
> >> Download Ubuntu 7.10 and give it a go.
> 
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