Installing Ubuntu

[Faizan Kazi]

well, I must say, windows isnt all that bad, theyre finally combining
windows xp's low resource usage with vistas glamour, and viola! windows 7!
its very very nice! and fast!

its wierd though that the live cd graphics were fine and after install they
weren't. you sure your hardware is all right? couldn't hurt to run a test on
your memory with memtest. not so easy testing the rest of the components
though :s

which graphics card/chip do you have? maybe you can install the "restricted
drivers" if theyre available (ati's are not, not yet!) and it might fix
things.

also, are you sure you didnt enable some effects (compiz fusion) or compiz
plugins or increase effects under "System" >> Preferences >> Appearance >>
Visual Effects?? those extra eye candy goodies can sometimes wreak havoc :s

~fez

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Sean or Mona <ugly at frightenstein.com>wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 07:38
> Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu
>
>
> > Sean or Mona wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Pridvi Kandagatla" <pridvik at gmail.com>
> > > To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 22:14
> > > Subject: Installing Ubuntu
> > >
>
> >     You are disappointed and feel your let down by Ubuntu. This could be
> > true, but please just tell us what happens when you put the CD-Rom in
> > your laptop. Does it run? Can you see the kernel load? Does it give you
> > some things to press the F1 -5 keys for?
> >
> >     Or does the cd not run, and nothing happens? These can be simple
> > things to fix but we need to understand your problem much better.
>
> The CD ran fine and seemed to install OK.  But upon trying to boot into
> Ubuntu it seemed slow and distorted and none of the menus seemed to work
> for
> anything.
> Laptop? I'm not THAT rich.  It's just a desktop jobby that I have.
> Regardless, I had to revert back to Windoze - for now - to save myself
> headaches.
> Yes that's an oxymoron of sorts. Windoze will give anyone headaches. But at
> least it's familiar.
>
>
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