New install with 7.10 minor bugs

Callum Scott scott.callum at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 21:01:53 UTC 2007


check your cards drivers are set on xorg.conf I had to change mine to
use the drivers after installing them and running glxgears

On 10/20/07, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Just wiped out hda3 on my HD for Gutsy - So far so good  The only
> glitches:
>
> It insists my hd is a scsi drive which it ain't. That's OK, whatever
> makes it happy.
>
> It offered and I agreed to DL and install the proprietary driver for my
> Nvidia card - BUT I cannot turn on even normal desktop effects. Hummm.
>
> The Live CD booted fine, recognizing everything on my machine  but the
> install didn't. First reboot it insisted on installing a Vesa driver at
> 800x600. Wonder why it recognized the Nvidia card and then didn't. Ahgh
> Computers, what a pain.
>
> Put a couple of icons onto the desktop for stuff I use all the time. But
> it wouldn't show them until I rebooted.
>
>
> It also started up all sort of Bluetooth garbage. which I then had to
> disable.
>
> All in all not bad....considering the problems some are having on this
> list.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
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> Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca>
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