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I finally become so sickened by Windows that I'm willing to go through the difficult transition to Ubuntu. I'm expecting trouble since I'm using a two year old Toshiba laptop (Satellite A10) and I require it to work with extended desktop covering the laptop 1024x768 display and an external 1280x1024 LCD panel. I'm willing to change any applications if I have to, but I mainly used Firefox and Open Office so there should be no problem there. | I finally become so sickened by Windows that I'm willing to go through the difficult transition to Ubuntu. I'm expecting trouble since I'm using a two year old Toshiba laptop (Satellite A10) and I require it to work with extended desktop covering the laptop 1024x768 display and an external 1280x1024 LCD panel. I'm willing to change any applications if I have to, but I mainly used Firefox and Open Office so there should be no problem there. | ||
*I've downloaded the Ubuntu 7.02 ISO, made a CD and booted it live to test it out before nuking the horrible but semi-functional shitware installation. | *I've downloaded the Ubuntu 7.02 ISO, made a CD and booted it live to test it out before nuking the horrible but semi-functional shitware installation. | ||
| − | * | + | *Configuration can be tested from the Live CD by making adjustments then restarting X with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE |
*The drives are all currently in NTFS format which the Ubuntu system can't natively write to, so the windows install needs to be nuked | *The drives are all currently in NTFS format which the Ubuntu system can't natively write to, so the windows install needs to be nuked | ||
*The important data on the windows drive has been backed up | *The important data on the windows drive has been backed up | ||
Revision as of 22:02, 14 July 2007
I finally become so sickened by Windows that I'm willing to go through the difficult transition to Ubuntu. I'm expecting trouble since I'm using a two year old Toshiba laptop (Satellite A10) and I require it to work with extended desktop covering the laptop 1024x768 display and an external 1280x1024 LCD panel. I'm willing to change any applications if I have to, but I mainly used Firefox and Open Office so there should be no problem there.
- I've downloaded the Ubuntu 7.02 ISO, made a CD and booted it live to test it out before nuking the horrible but semi-functional shitware installation.
- Configuration can be tested from the Live CD by making adjustments then restarting X with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE
- The drives are all currently in NTFS format which the Ubuntu system can't natively write to, so the windows install needs to be nuked
- The important data on the windows drive has been backed up
Contents
Network
I was pleasantly surprised by how well the networking went. It has detected all my network interfaces and automatically connected to the local wireless network establishing internet access.
Video
As predicted, the dual-monitor setup is not inherently available, it's only operating on the external screen and the maximum resolution available is lower than the screens native resolution. After reading this on Ubuntu forums, it looks like my only option is Xinerama since it's the only dual-monitor solution which supports any arbitrary video hardware supported by XWindow.
- Ubuntu forums: Dual Monitor HowTo
- Ubuntu forums: Xinerama
- My /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
- About xorg.conf
- Example of i810 config
- G:xorg.conf i810 dual
- No need for Xinerama?
- Another i810 example
File System
All my external drives are
Organic Design
Ubuntu was packaged with Firefox as the default browser, but there are a number of differences with the rendering compared to Firefox under windows. The most noticable difference is that the font has changed to serif.
