9.10 Frustrations - WITHDRAWN

[John Graddy]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 19:21 -0600, John Graddy wrote:
> 9.10 is the first Ubuntu release with which I have been unable to get a
> satisfactory install.  My monitor (which has worked with several
> releases) always gets set at a resolution of 600X800.  I have always run
> it at much higher resolutions.  The installation process (from the Live
> CD) never asks for any information on the monitor.  I even moved a
> relatively new LED flat screen monitor from another computer to my
> system as a test, and it also got set to a resolution of 600X800.
> 
> At this resolution, using Evolution email or the Firefox web browser are
> no fun.  I find myself constantly moving windows around so that I can
> see the full content.  In doing so, I found that resizing the numerous
> fields in the Evolution window no longer work.  The window is the same
> width as the monitor screen and I suspect that this has something to do
> with the problem.
> 
> Through frustration and confusion (plus a little ignorance), I've
> managed to lose my email - including a whole bunch of mail from this
> mailing list that I was saving to help me out of previously found
> problems.
> 
> Has anyone else had these kinds of problems?  If I could get around the
> screen resolution problem a lot of the frustration would be resolved.
> 
> John
> 
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Thanks to all who responded.  I've come to the conclusion that all of
these people going to all of this trouble to allow me to run some old
hardware is simply not worth it.  It's much simpler for me to simply
upgrade my system (actually, I've been wanting to do that for a while)
and go on from there.  I'll just write this off as my first (and
hopefully, my only) bad experience with Ubuntu.

Thanks again to all.

John