[Blackpool] Re Laptop install

[Tony Hughes]

Hi All Update on laptop situation.

I did it, after a bit more research on the net and with the use of lspci 
in a terminal to find out the graphics card in the laptop I found a page 
on the Ubuntu forums where folks had the same problem with this 
hardware. Someone gave the required script to make a xorg.conf file for 
the X11 folder, and after a false start and trashing X the first time 
round and having to reinstall the hard drive (all part of the learning 
curve), I now have a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 (yes full Ubuntu 
Gnome GUI) which I am installing the updates on as I write.

I've just ordered a 256mb Ram card from e-bay to bring the memory up to 
the max 512mb for the PC. I'm well pleased if I carry on like this I'll 
start to become a real GEEK heeeeelp. This was and still is a very good 
bit of kit so I am glad to be able to give it a new lease of life, my 
next plan is to buy a 1.8" IDE SSD for it to see if it will improve 
performance and battery life, it could be £50 well spent.

All I can say is the Ubuntu community rocks.

Tony