<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Clouds,<br>We've all been there, no need to feel bad at all. I would suspect the installer/live CD did not select the correct driver for your graphics card (you would need to check to see if there is a driver available for it). <br><br>I like the idea of an install clinic. BTW im having trouble getting anti-aliased fonts in my xterm and Jedit (even though firefox and libreoffice is fine). <br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 4/11/11, Ian Dickinson <i><i.j.dickinson@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Ian Dickinson <i.j.dickinson@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [members@lugog] Hi<br>To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury" <glastonbury@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Friday, 4 November, 2011, 19:43<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi Clouds,<br>> Have to
admit, as a newbie - hangs head -<br>No need for that. Everyone has to start somewhere. Indeed, if the<br>Linux community is unwelcoming to people getting started then it's<br>*us* who should hang *our* heads!<br><br>> that I've temporarily gone back to the madmen of Richmond. I tried to get<br>> a distro that suited me but either Ubuntu or CentOS or whatever baulked at<br>> my hardware or I just couldn't get stuff to install. Linux needs to be made<br>> more user-friendly for those of us long in the tooth and none too keen on<br>> struggling with repositories.<br>Agreed.<br><br>> Ubuntu was allegedly the answer, hmm.. i didn't<br>> find it so and I'm building my sixth machine (don't haved them all of course)<br>> so I know what the inside of the box looks like :-)<br>> It's always the bloody software that's the problem.<br>One of the things we've done in the past is run an install clinic for<br>people having just these
sorts of problems. It's hard to give specific<br>advice without knowing which problems you're experiencing, but it is<br>certainly true that I've seen a fair share of install problems over<br>the years. Perhaps an install clinic is something we could discuss at<br>the pubmoot.<br><br>By the way, when we settle a day for the pubmoot I'll be driving from<br>Glastonbury. Happy to offer lifts to anyone who'd like one (well, as<br>long as you're not in Yeovil or somesuch :)<br><br>Ian<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Glastonbury Linux User Group mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Glastonbury@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=Glastonbury@mailman.lug.org.uk">Glastonbury@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/glastonbury" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/glastonbury</a><br><br>User group website: <a href="http://www.lugog.org.uk/"
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