X11 problems on dell inspiron 5000

Eric S. Johansson esj at harvee.org
Fri May 27 18:21:25 UTC 2005


I know this laptop had problems with the current release of Xorg on many 
distributions because of problems with the ati driver.  so I tried the 
live cd first.  works great!  I mean really smashing.  enought to get me 
to consider switching from gentoo on my lattops.  I got the right 
resolution and good speed.

switching to an installed version, well, it was not so good.  I had some 
video but hal bitched at me for some reason and then I never saw an X 
display again.

what is the reason for the differences between live and installed?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=36998  if you want lspci, 
dmesg, or lsmod output from installed

help?

--- eric





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