Ubuntu 8.04

[ghetto guy]

I tried it, and I like it. Using it right now on my laptop that dual boots Ubuntu and XP.
Very easy to use, everything worked out of the box. Except my wireless card but there was a pretty easy fix for that. One thing that I am disappointed about (and maybe you Linux guys can help me) is that Compiz will only run with my screen resolution set to 512x512. :(
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/danrulz98/Screenshot.png

[Pacman]

What flavor of graphics card have you got? I'm assuming you've got the drivers from Hardware Drivers or EnvyNG?

I'm using Ubuntu myself.

[matheteou]

What flavor of graphics card have you got? I'm assuming you've got the drivers from Hardware Drivers or EnvyNG?

I'm using Ubuntu myself.Exactly! My two systems have some problems with the proprietary drivers (one's ATI and the other is NVIDIA, haven't figured out why yet, but I suspect the two companies haven't caught up with 8.04) so I don't use Compiz and I miss having Google Earth on my desktop (the NVIDIA).

[Pacman]

Nvidia generally has much, much better support than ATI, but you'll need the proprietary driver for both. The Intel cards seem to work fine out of the box.

I can thoroughly recommend EnvyNG though. As of Hardy it's in the repos, too.

[ghetto guy]

It's an ATI card and it's using whatever driver Ubuntu loaded at install. I'm not using any proprietary drivers.

[Pacman]

It's an ATI card and it's using whatever driver Ubuntu loaded at install. I'm not using any proprietary drivers.

Righto, that's your problem then. You want to get EnvyNG, it's in the repos:

EnvyNG for Gnome (apt:envyng-gtk)
EnvyNG for KDE (apt:envyng-qt)

(Click on these links and it'll actually download from the normal repos)

Then Applications > System Tools > EnvyNG

It should auto-detect your hardware and install much better drivers for your card. Like I said, ATI are dragging the chain on Linux support, so your mileage may vary.

[matheteou]

Righto, that's your problem then. You want to get EnvyNG, it's in the repos:

EnvyNG for Gnome (apt:envyng-gtk)
EnvyNG for KDE (apt:envyng-qt)

(Click on these links and it'll actually download from the normal repos)

Then Applications > System Tools > EnvyNG

It should auto-detect your hardware and install much better drivers for your card. Like I said, ATI are dragging the chain on Linux support, so your mileage may vary.And they (ATI) still are. After the welcome screen you're left with a very light tan screen, a mouse pointer and nothing else. Doing the 3-fingered X restart shows a normal screen just before the restart, so there are issues.

[ghetto guy]

Righto, that's your problem then. You want to get EnvyNG, it's in the repos:

EnvyNG for Gnome (apt:envyng-gtk)
EnvyNG for KDE (apt:envyng-qt)

(Click on these links and it'll actually download from the normal repos)

Then Applications > System Tools > EnvyNG

It should auto-detect your hardware and install much better drivers for your card. Like I said, ATI are dragging the chain on Linux support, so your mileage may vary.

Now I'm stuck in 800x600 resolution:reaction
I told it to remove the driver and it still won't let me go back to full resolution.

[ghetto guy]

I tried it again and now I'm stuck in 640x480

edit: Fixed it with recovery mode. Running in regular resolution again. I'll live without Compiz. My computer was able to run Compiz Fusion under a KDE distro, I don't know why it wouldn't work with Compiz under Gnome

[Pacman]

Yep, it's all about the Nvidia cards with Linux at the mo. ATI have said they want to sort their act out, though.