bad video mode booting from 7.10 cd

[Joao Ferreira gmail]

Hi guys,

just to let you know I've just finished installing from the Alternate CD
and everything is fine.

I got 800x600 out of the box. :)

thanks

joao


On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:38 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/08/2008 09:19 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> >> > It's a CRT, quite old. I never got more than 800x600 or 1027x768
> >> from
> >> > it.
> >> > 
> >> > does this help ?
> > 
> >> Partially - I need the _model_ number.Look on your monitor and tell us
> >> what the model number is. That is the only way that I can find out the
> >> Horizontal and Vertical frequencies & specs of the monitor - unless of
> >> course you still have the manual for it :-).
> > 
> > SAMSUNG (not Samtron sorry), SyncMaster3
> > 
> >> 
> >> Also please provide the amount of RAM the system has.
> > 
> > the computer has 256Megs RAM; the Video card I believe it's 4Megs.
> > 
> >> 
> >> When you say booting from 7.10 CD; are you trying to boot using a
> >> LiveCD? If so, it most likely won't work on your system. You'll need to
> >> install from the Alternate CD.
> > 
> > Ok. So what is this "Alternate CD" people mention ?
> > 
> > thanks
> > joao
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Use 7.10 or 8.04 (alternate CD's only).
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
> Be sure to click the "Check here if you need the alternate desktop CD.
> This CD does not include the Live CD, instead it uses a text-based
> installer." Just below the Start Download button.
> 
> Or:
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10/
> Scroll down and download:
> ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso
> 
> Hardy beta (which will be release in about 16 days) is here:
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta
> [read the page/notes]
>   http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/
> [Alternate install CD]j
> Scroll down and download:
> ubuntu-8.04-beta-alternate-i386.iso
> 
>