Comments on: An Ubuntu adventure in prehistoric times http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: oli http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-991 oli Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:53:28 +0000 http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-991 <!--more-->Change your Xorg settings to 16-bit colors or lower at 1024x768. 24-bit color is not supported. That should do the trick =) Change your Xorg settings to 16-bit colors or lower at 1024×768. 24-bit color is not supported.
That should do the trick =)

]]> By: Jore http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-986 Jore Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:46:31 +0000 http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-986 Hi there, could you maybe explain how you got your F69000 to display 1024x768 in X? Because I currently have the exact same problem on my living-room-music-box-mini-PC, and have yet to find a cure :-P Thanks, Jore Hi there,
could you maybe explain how you got your F69000 to display 1024×768 in X? Because I currently have the exact same problem on my living-room-music-box-mini-PC, and have yet to find a cure :-P

Thanks,
Jore

]]> By: aadil http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-66 aadil Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:02:30 +0000 http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-66 Yes, I agree; Emacs is a good OS. Too bad it doesn't have an editor. ;D Yes, I agree; Emacs is a good OS. Too bad it doesn’t have an editor. ;D

]]> By: oli http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-65 oli Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:50:16 +0000 http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-65 yeah i checked out DSL, but I needed something easy for other people than me to use it. I remember having a pentium 2 450 a few years ago, it didn't seem as slow! in any case, it nice to be running xterms & emacs on this 'puter as opposed to winBlows2000; i can get some work done while i'm not in Toronto! yeah i checked out DSL, but I needed something easy for other people than me to use it. I remember having a pentium 2 450 a few years ago, it didn’t seem as slow!

in any case, it nice to be running xterms & emacs on this ‘puter as opposed to winBlows2000; i can get some work done while i’m not in Toronto!

]]> By: Henry Z. http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-64 Henry Z. Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:33:24 +0000 http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-64 I installed Ubuntu on a P2 last year (I did have some trouble getting the sound to work at first) but its been a year since that server has been up with very low maintence. I do my apt-get updates/upgrades once a month or so and I've never had a problem. I installed Ubuntu on a P2 last year (I did have some trouble getting the sound to work at first) but its been a year since that server has been up with very low maintence.

I do my apt-get updates/upgrades once a month or so and I’ve never had a problem.

]]> By: aadil http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-63 aadil Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:09:43 +0000 http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/10/an-ubuntu-adventure-in-prehistoric-times/#comment-63 I have installed Ubuntu on my Compaq Armada E500 some while back and everything worked out fine. Except that I didn't like the package manager - which kept forgetting the dependencies and adding more than needed when re-configured. Anyway, the most adapted dsitro for this kind of hardware definitely has to be DSL (Damn Small Linux). The speed drastically improved on my laptop. And it can be configured as a debian system too after a hard disk install. I have installed Ubuntu on my Compaq Armada E500 some while back and everything worked out fine. Except that I didn’t like the package manager - which kept forgetting the dependencies and adding more than needed when re-configured.

Anyway, the most adapted dsitro for this kind of hardware definitely has to be DSL (Damn Small Linux). The speed drastically improved on my laptop. And it can be configured as a debian system too after a hard disk install.

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