Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Tribe 5 Features

[edge]

The fancy graphics effects should work fine on the Intel card. They were nice and smooth, and worked out of the box on my previous work laptop. I believe that was one of the GMA950 cards, or something along those lines. Most modern cards support OpenGL enough that it shouldn't be a problem. The only tinkering I really had to do on that system was tweaking some settings for X to display in the correct resolution for the wide screen.

[MasteR]

I thought they fixed the resolution bug for Intel laptop cards in Gutsy? Maybe not. All I know is that on my laptop Feisty didn't have the right rez, but Gutsy did.

[edge]

I'm told that it was fixed, but I had also read on several sites that it was supposedly fixed at some point in Feisty, which, to the best of my knowledge it never was (was it? I just know that it never worked for me without tweaking).

My new laptop has a nVidia card, rather than Intel, so I can't provide a yes/no answer on that matter.

I'd be surprised if it didn't work though. There were a couple of very easy fixes for the issue that would be silly not to incorporate into new releases.

[MasteR]

I had to install the 956resolution (or whatever it was) package in Feisty to get the correct rez. Dunno if that is the fix you mention. As far as I know this was never installed by default.

As for Gutsy, the default driver used has changed to the modesetting driver, which doesn't have the same bug, thus it is "fixed" now.

[Martin Blank]

VMWare Player (for which you can download a pre-installed Ubuntu installation for free).

Where?

EDIT: After much searching, I found this, but it seems to be an RC only.

Try this one instead.

Depending on how much you want to look at, anywhere from 4GB to 8GB should be sufficient. My installations routinely blow past 6GB, but I have a lot of security tools that require compiling and additional packages, so there can be a fair amount of space requirements.

[Deacon]

Cool, I'll give it a shot. I don't know that I have an extra 8GB of space on my work laptop to dedicate to a virtual hard drive for playing around, but I may try it with less and see how it goes. I don't like to let the hard drive files grow as needed due to the fragmentation that necessarily occurs as a result.

[Felan]

Cool, I'll give it a shot. I don't know that I have an extra 8GB of space on my work laptop to dedicate to a virtual hard drive for playing around, but I may try it with less and see how it goes. I don't like to let the hard drive files grow as needed due to the fragmentation that necessarily occurs as a result.

Maybe run the image off a USB drive of some sort if you have one?

[edge]

I had to install the 956resolution (or whatever it was) package in Feisty to get the correct rez. Dunno if that is the fix you mention.

That was one of two that worked for me. Ultimately, that was the easiest to deal with, so I stuck with it. I forget exactly what the other method was that worked for me. I want to say it was just a matter of making changes in a few configs, but it seems to me that method was a little tricky if you weren't sure exactly what to look for.

[Deacon]

I do not have one. I'm not part of my company's IT department, though I'm sure I could finagle one if I had to.

[MasteR]

Works off of USB flash too. I had Feisty running on a 2GB flash a while back to play with. Was slow, but fast enough if you have USB2. Format without a swap if you are going to do it this way.