> STONE COLD wrote: > > Hi, > > > > those of you who have now installed 7.10 what are your thoughts? > > How has it improved from fiesty? > > > > Regards > > javad > > > > Installed it this evening from the Live CD on an oldish Athlon XP 1900 > with 256MB memory. Installation was very slow (I expected that, I am > upgrading the memory just haven't got any to hand right now). Once it > installed it boots fine and seems fairly responsive on the desktop. > > Couple of niggly problems though. When booting from the Live CD in > either normal mode or choosing the OEM mode it won't display properly on > this particular machine (it's got an ATI Video card, I think it's a > Radeon 9200SE) and it seems to go into 640x400 (it has a big black > border on the bottom of the screen!). Safe mode video option works fine > though. > > Splash screen doesn't work when booting up. I have seen this before, I > think in Feisty, can't remember what I did to fix it. > > I'm going to give it a go on my main desktop tomorrow. So far I am > quite impressed, hope the problems I have experienced aren't the norm. > > Rob > > > > Did a fresh install of Gutsy on a Thinkpad X31 from the Live CD, everything went fine and only took 20mins.
First problem I noticed is the boot and shutdown splash screen don't show -- same as Rob, though they show fine when my external display is connected (tv at same resolution). Also the computer seems to take a little longer to boot than Feisty did, nothing to bother about though. Aside from that everything seems to be running smoothly, hopefully it'll still be the same once I get all my favourite programs installed. And here's hoping it works as well on my other Thinkpad. Oh, and another thing I noticed, desktop effects won't work, they did work (sort of) in Feisty with a few bugs. Could this be to do with the ATI drivers? But Anyway, I can live without desktop effects, though they are nice for showing off :) I'll be upgrading a few other machines over the weekend and shall let you all know how I get on. Cheers. Dave
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