Re: A question

2011-08-12 Thread Michael Haney
Its rather stable and runs very fast. After using it for a while, I prefer LXDE over XFCE now. When will the derivative be listed on the official website ubuntu.com? -- Michael Haney Mystic Island Solutions - IT Department -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify setting

The Final Straw

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Haney
Several versions ago Ubuntu once had a feature where you could go to the same window where you selected your screen resolution, then click on a tab and manually select your monitor hardware. After this feature was removed myself a very large number of others have had problems with Ubuntu. The mai

Re: Removed Feature Impact Quality of Ubuntu

2010-05-21 Thread Michael Haney
OMG! There has to be an easier way than this. Finally got it working, sort of. Through diligent trial and error I was able to finally add in what X.org wanted in the xorg.conf file to make this work. It did, of course, break something doing this. The boot splash screen no longer comes up, and

Re: Removed Feature Impact Quality of Ubuntu

2010-05-20 Thread Michael Haney
I've decided to give Ubuntu another chance. I love the distro, nothing else compares, and using something else just felt like i'd taken a trip back in time 10 years. My experience with both Mandriva 2010 and MEPIS Linux has shown me just how far Ubuntu has come, how more ahead of the curve Ubuntu

Re: Removed Feature Impact Quality of Ubuntu

2010-05-19 Thread Michael Haney
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Michael Haney wrote: >> It was decided to let X.org auto-detect video hardware starting with >> Ubuntu 7.10.  Unfortunately, the auto-detection procedure does not >> always work corr

Removed Feature Impact Quality of Ubuntu

2010-05-18 Thread Michael Haney
There is an issue with Ubuntu that started in version 7.10 and persists all the way to 10.04. In previous versions before 7.10 users were able to change the make and model of their monitors from the Hardware tab in the screen resolution window in the System => Preferences.window. This was removed