[Gllug] help with ubuntu

[Wiehe, Simon]

Sad I know, replying to my own posts that is, but FYI.

I have found that the hotplug issue I mention is a known bug and I need to put
the 2 offending modules in the hotplug blacklist file.

So I just need to find exactly what incarnation of Matrox Millennium card I am
using and I might be up and running. Quite a painless exercise really, moving
from Red Hat 8.0 to Ubuntu.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk]On
Behalf Of Wiehe, Simon
Sent: 08 November 2004 06:15
To: 'Greater London Linux Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Gllug] help with ubuntu


I eventually got a better resolution. Firstly I found an AGP graphics card
(Matrox Millennium) I had taken out of another machine, it is better than the
one that was in there (PCI Matrox Mystique).

I then ran xf86config and manually selected the required settings. I can get
1024x768, but I don't seem to be able to get 1280x1024, it is certainly an
improvement.

I also managed to port my old Samba config, email server (and mailboxes) and
firewall scripts. I even managed to get dhcp3 working.

Just one more problem to fix and I am up and running, I get 2 modprobe errors
when hotplug starts. Off to look at the Ubuntu  fora to see if anyone else has
this problem.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk]On
Behalf Of NorthLondon John
Sent: 06 November 2004 14:37
To: Greater London Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Gllug] help with ubuntu



On 6 Nov 2004, at 13:44, Wiehe, Simon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have bitten the bullet and installed ubuntu on my machine. The basic 
> config worked, now I just need to get the server bits working. I have 
> started up iptables and that works fine and I have configured my 
> second NIC. Now for dhcp and the screen.
>
> Despite selecting it on the install screen I cannot get 1280x1024 or 
> 1024x768 screen resolution. Anyone got any ideas why ?

What sort of machine / graphics card have you got?

I had this problem with debian - the solution (courtesy of this list) 
was :
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
I presume it's the same with ubuntu (don't have my ubuntu box in front 
of me)

Otherwise, try searching/asking on the  ubuntu users mailing list - 
there's developers there.
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
If you can't deal with the traffic (it's heavy), try the gmane 
interface:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user

John


www.ubuntulinux.org
linux for humans

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