[members at lugog] Hi

[GARY SEVIOUR]

Hi Clouds,
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). 

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). 


--- On Fri, 4/11/11, Ian Dickinson <i.j.dickinson at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ian Dickinson <i.j.dickinson at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [members at lugog] Hi
To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury" <glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date: Friday, 4 November, 2011, 19:43

Hi Clouds,
> Have to admit, as a newbie - hangs head -
No need for that. Everyone has to start somewhere. Indeed, if the
Linux community is unwelcoming to people getting started then it's
*us* who should hang *our* heads!

> that I've temporarily gone back to the madmen of Richmond. I tried to get
> a distro that suited me but either Ubuntu or CentOS or whatever baulked at
> my hardware or I just couldn't get stuff to install. Linux needs to be made
> more user-friendly for those of us long in the tooth and none too keen on
> struggling with repositories.
Agreed.

> Ubuntu was allegedly the answer, hmm.. i didn't
> find it so and I'm building my sixth machine (don't haved them all of course)
> so I know what the inside of the box looks like :-)
> It's always the bloody software that's the problem.
One of the things we've done in the past is run an install clinic for
people having just these sorts of problems. It's hard to give specific
advice without knowing which problems you're experiencing, but it is
certainly true that I've seen a fair share of install problems over
the years. Perhaps an install clinic is something we could discuss at
the pubmoot.

By the way, when we settle a day for the pubmoot I'll be driving from
Glastonbury. Happy to offer lifts to anyone who'd like one (well, as
long as you're not in Yeovil or somesuch :)

Ian

_______________________________________________
Glastonbury Linux User Group mailing list
Glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/glastonbury

User group website: http://www.lugog.org.uk/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/glastonbury/attachments/20111104/3a5443d3/attachment.htm>