[Klug-general] My Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Configuration

[MacGyveR]

On Wednesday 05 May 2010, Alex Layfield wrote:
> Yes, found Ubuntu10 2 b really quick @ installing, and to run...
>
> Things are brilliant...
>
> I do have a problem with the Radeon X160 tho'... Can't seem 2 get it 2
> install properly 4 3D effects...
>
> lspci shows the correct name... No proprietery drivers available tho'?
>
>
> /A
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 09:50:28
> To: <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: [Klug-general] My Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Configuration
> I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop this weekend.
>
> The install: From CD (Which I'll bring to the next Lug meet for people
> interested) was easier and faster than ever.
> Hardware support: It offered to download drivers and configure my
> printer and graphics card for me, everything else in the kernel.
> Look and feel: I'm used to gnome and the purple doesn't bother me
> enough for me to change it yet.
> Software Centre: Not for me, I apt-get from the command line most of
> the time. But if you don't know what you are looking for and are a
> regular person (as in not a command line junkie) then this allows you
> to type in "image editor" for example and the gimp is at the top of
> the list with a "more info" button which gives you description and
> screen shot.
>
> For the sake of my own reference I figured I'd post some notes on my
> website on the bits I did after the install (to get DVDs working,
> java, chrome, picasa etc...). I'm not sure if it is of any help to
> anybody here but for the sake of it and the thought that I'd pass it
> on. Flash 10 64bit is probably the most interesting part.
>
> http://www.david-halliday.co.uk/?Linux:Desktop
>
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ATI do provide linux drivers from their site, they work fine on slackware, you 
may need to enter the compiling zone though.