[ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

[alan c]

Alan Pope wrote:
> 2008/11/8 alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>:
>> It seems that some problems are associated with xorg and its (now)
>> lack of visible configuration. I could usually stumble in the right
>> direction when xorg.conf was meaningful, even using vi,  but I am
>> quite lost in the current situations, with the minimal xorg.conf.
>>
> 
> There's nothing stopping you using a "normal" populated xorg.conf on a
> recent install of Ubuntu or Kubuntu. Whilst recent Xorg can cope with
> a minimal (or even no) xorg.conf, it can also be used with a fully
> populated configured xorg.conf. You could for example take an
> xorg.conf from an earlier version of Ubuntu and use it on a recent
> version.

OK, thanks. Will be very useful I think for me personally with my 
inspiron1100 laptop.

Although my main concern is newcomers who come up to the display 
table, never touched linux before, heard it is wonderful and will 
solve all their problems, and half expect to go away with a kubuntu 
CD. For now, it is ok to give out 8.04.1 u/kubuntu, but there is 
obvious interest in 8.10, and anyway the drivers  and other things may 
be beneficial for a newcomer. Ubuntu 8.10 certainly is good on the 
eeepc. The make bootable usb is really good - used it at the computer 
fair even today to make a usb stick for a newcomer!

One customer, not a real newbie though, did say they had tried kubuntu 
8.10 and wanted now to avoid it, but yet another one,  more confident 
diy PC guy, quite new to linux, said he quite liked it :-) although he 
did not understand it all (yet).  Which is good.
It is the less confident users who I am keeping an eye on.

-- 
alan cocks
Ubuntu user
Linux user #360648