The installer had the correct resolution, possibly because I edited the boot-loader menu with the vga=795 command line addition. However, the installation came up 640x480 with 320x240 as the only option, regardless of any command line edits. I managed to download and install the latest NVidia driver. Not that it did much good. It allowed me to adjust the resolution to what I used in prior Ubuntu/Kubuntu installations but didn't allow saving that configuration for subsequent sessions. The "save" dialogue appeared but did not allow saving the Xorg config file. Even invoking nvidia-settings as root did not help.
That meant I'd be forced to re-adjust back from the standard 640x480 each session. Not impossible of course, but a pitiful step backward from the easy NVidia configuration of Jaunty Lucid and Maverick. Even then, the display was corrupted when I invoked KDE's konsole app, perhaps because I had reconfigured the font size. I could hack all this. I could install (as root) a prior xorg config file which had the appropriate resolutions that I generated in Mepis 8.0. I could edit the fstab file to set up my preferred mount points. But why bother? Those fundamental mechanisms, as well as the numerous desktop bugs in Unity, should be fully operative in the installation of any respectable release. Shuttleworth will sure alienate any potential convert from Windows7 with this ungodly mess, and for what purpose? Worse, the rumor is that the next Ubuntu release will abandon the "classic" (i.e., Gnome-like) interface altogether, leaving Unity as the only desktop. Beyond that, Shuttleworth is allegedly planning to replace X with something called Wayland. Given the hideously botched disaster he produced with the switch away from Gnome, one can only imagine what an entirely new graphics engine will look like coming from that team. I give Shuttleworth great credit for bringing Linux to the average desktop user wanting something more than Windows. Too bad he couldn't rein in his ego long enough to perfect what he had produced, instead of wandering off to create something nobody was asking for in a package that doesn't even work as well as a sophomore programming class project. On 05/02/2011 12:01 AM, Jason Barnett wrote: > I have been using Kubuntu 11.04 since Alpha 2 and have had almost no > problems at all. Are you saying that the installer is at 640x480 with > Nvidia or is that after the install is done and you boot into it for the > first time? I'll give it a go on my system and see what happens. If it is > at the first boot, is it using the nouveau driver or the proprietary Nvidia > driver? > > Jason _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
