REALLY BACK AGAIN!

[Master Cougar]

On 1/31/07, Peter Whittaker <pwwnow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:34 -0500, Maurice Murphy wrote:
> > I managed to trick the installation process by setting my Windows
> > screen resolution to maximum, doing a warm boot from the Ubuntu CD.
> > My analysis is that my box, or at least part of it, has a
> > compatibility problem with Ubuntu, primarily in the video adapter
> > department.
>
> I'm a real "if ain't broke don't fix it" kind of guy, so I will not
> suggest changing anything... ...but Ubuntu doesn't know anything about
> your machine's resolution under Windows.


  Well, I had the same thing happen to me. When I  loaded Windows first,
didn't  set the drivers for my video card and then installed  Ubuntu I did
NOT get the resolution I got when I installed the windows drivers before
installing Ubuntu.

When you boot into Ubuntu, whether from the CD or from the hard drive,
> the resolution is determined by BIOS and Ubuntu settings alone. Windows
> is not part of the picture.
>
> It's great that it works, but it's not because of some Windows dual boot
> magic smoke!
>
> But like I say, if ain't broke don't fix it (I ran dual boot for months,
> til I missed the 3 or gigs being consumed by the unused Windows virus.
> That was BE (before Edgy), and I've a feisty little system now).
>
> > Maurice from Nepean
>
> pww from Kanata
>
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