No X Display with IBM T30 laptop with ubuntu but works with redhat 9

[Santiago Erquicia]

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 10:06 +0800, prasad at i2r.a-star.edu.sg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Tried this way ...but did not work. I saw some changes with blank X window screen, went bigger and normal (flip -flop) for few times and finally fall back to usual text window.
> 
> I was curious and installed RedHat 9 (which I had bought quite some time back) as another guest OS on top of VMware on the same laptop. The X window and entire installation  worked straight away without any tweakings. 
> 
> I am surprised why a new linux release like ubuntu which says a "desktop" distribution has so much problems to work on laptop whereas a two year old RedHat release installs so smoothly.  Ubuntu deveopment team should take down this point as more and more users nowadays have been using laptops.
> 
> P

A desktop distribution should not be meant to be installed under VMware.
I don't know of anyone that normally uses any operating system under
those conditions.  It is just used on servers and to try things out but
not as desktops.
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