Ubuntu: An Excellent Beginners Distro

wesley · 3 Oct 2004 at 16:33

i forgot about 48 and 30

rebooted and still the same, i *think* GF4 graphic card doesnt support 100hz at 1280x1024, it arent important as 85hz is ok for me

but the colours are very dark

here the XF86Config file

click here

Mpemba Effect · 3 Oct 2004 at 16:39

Oooo very nice, clean and compact XF86Config file

All looks to be in good order to me. Your next job is to install the nvidia drivers from here. Make sure you read the howto here. This will enable hardware acceleration and hopefully improve your colours

dirtydog · 3 Oct 2004 at 16:59

Originally posted by wesley
i forgot about 48 and 30

rebooted and still the same, i *think* GF4 graphic card doesnt support 100hz at 1280x1024, it arent important as 85hz is ok for me]

Your card should support 100Hz and beyond at 1280x1024

Mpemba Effect · 3 Oct 2004 at 17:05

Add

Code:

ModeLine "1280x1024" 198.56 1280 1336 1616 1728 1024 1026 1038 1064 #108Hz

to your Monitor Section in your XF86Config file. Example:

Code:

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"AOC Spectrum"
	HorizSync	48-121
	VertRefresh	30-160
	Option		"DPMS"
        ModeLine "1280x1024" 198.56 1280 1336 1616 1728 1024 1026 1038 1064 #108Hz
EndSection

wesley · 3 Oct 2004 at 21:30

hi

just added that line to XF86Config, rebooted and everything are screwed :eek:

no display at all :eek:

Mpemba Effect · 3 Oct 2004 at 22:05

Originally posted by wesley
hi

just added that line to XF86Config, rebooted and everything are screwed

no display at all

Hmm balls, ok no display as in you get a black screen only? So you get a command prompt at all?

wesley · 3 Oct 2004 at 22:11

nope, nothing :eek:

monitor change to stand by mode :eek:

Mpemba Effect · 3 Oct 2004 at 22:12

How about if you hit "ctrl-alt-keypad_minus"?

Tesla · 3 Oct 2004 at 23:18

Whats a rough minimum spec for a Linux X-Windows based PC?

Thinking of throwing together a cheap rig to run linux on.

Whats ubuntu minimum spec?

englishpremier · 4 Oct 2004 at 00:54

some interesting stuff.

Hey Mpemba Effect , would you be interested in installing and reviewing Yoper linux. Its installation is text based and takes about 12mins, runs very fast, uses apt-get, and uses the Suse config tool SAX2.

plus it would mean you help me out more when i get stuck (which is like every other day) lol.

Mpemba Effect · 4 Oct 2004 at 08:00

Originally posted by englishpremier
some interesting stuff.

Hey Mpemba Effect , would you be interested in installing and reviewing Yoper linux. Its installation is text based and takes about 12mins, runs very fast, uses apt-get, and uses the Suse config tool SAX2.

plus it would mean you help me out more when i get stuck (which is like every other day) lol.

Yup sure thing

robmiller · 4 Oct 2004 at 20:57

Installing Ubuntu on my mum's PC now. Everything's going swimmingly so far; it's updating packages from the net now. Seems nice

robmiller · 5 Oct 2004 at 00:39

Wow, I'm impressed - everything just... works.

Gnome has certainly improved since I last used it, too.

marc2003 · 5 Oct 2004 at 16:23

i've just installed this too.

very close to chucking the pc out the window trying to get my usb modem to work. but i got there in the end.

i'm also after a quick fix for the annoying window behaviour in nautilus. it's just like windows 95, opening a new window for each folder you open, answers on a postcard please...

i've looked at the obvious options but can't find anything...

Tesla · 5 Oct 2004 at 16:28

Any ideas on a minimum spec.?

Google and the Ubuntu site didnt show anything

TMH · 5 Oct 2004 at 16:52

Originally posted by Tesla
Whats a rough minimum spec for a Linux X-Windows based PC?

Thinking of throwing together a cheap rig to run linux on.

Whats ubuntu minimum spec?

There is no minimum spec, really, provided you have an x86 processor (you'd probably want to go for a celeron or duron). You can use other processor architectures, but x86 is the most common.

The minimum I ever ran linux on:

Pentium 1 133mhz
16mb RAM
8gb HDD

It didn't exactly whip along, but it never crashed, more than I could say for windows 95 at the time

TMH · 5 Oct 2004 at 16:53

note: You can get much, much lower than that and still run a decentish router/web server

Mpemba Effect · 5 Oct 2004 at 18:06

Originally posted by Tesla
Any ideas on a minimum spec.?

Google and the Ubuntu site didnt show anything

What spec were you thinking off? Linux will run on practically anything but I'd recommend at least 256M of ram if you want to run gnome.

Tesla · 5 Oct 2004 at 18:27

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
What spec were you thinking off? Linux will run on practically anything but I'd recommend at least 256M of ram if you want to run gnome.

I dont want to dilute this thread so will make a hardware related one in GD.

EDIT - Trying to install Ubuntu ona P166 with 96mb ram at the moment. This PC can run Win2k so I'm hoping it can run this!
EDIT - It's been on the Blue screen after you input the language and it detects IDE CD Drive for about 20minutes. The HDD light is on.

Tesla · 5 Oct 2004 at 19:28

Think the probem isnt with Ubuntu as I get an opperand error when mandrake 10.0 tries to set up the cd drive.

(when it says press alt+F1 for log etc... at the bottom, that screen is when it errors and crashes)

Any ideas? Would prefer to get Ubuntu on there.