[ILUG] X on dell vostro 1000

[Glen Gray]

I got one of these for my wife before xmas. Unfortunately it's running  
Windows, but when I use it, I boot from a Fedora 8 flash disk I have  
and X worked perfectly.

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Glen Gray
slaine at slaine.org




On 10 Apr 2008, at 19:03, Conor Daly wrote:
> So, I got my new Dell Vostro 1000 laptop (EUR480) with 2GHz, 1Gb,  
> 80Gb.  I
> videoed the refusal of the MS XP EULA with the intention of  
> returning the
> software for a refund.  Then I installed a quick RHEL5 'cos I had a  
> disk
> handy.  Couldn't get X going.  Downloaded a Ubuntu live CD (7.1 I  
> think)
> and booted from that.  X starts but I get a screen that looks like
> interlaced and out of sync.
>
> It has a Radeon RS482 Xpress 200 card with a 15" widescreen LCD.   
> ubuntu
> is using the radeon driver.  I haven't tried the ATI driver and would
> prefer to use the free one if poss.  Anyone had any luck with this  
> card?
>
> I'll grab logs and stuff in a bit.
>
> Conor
>
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> Conor Daly <conor.daly at cod.homelinux.org>
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