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Re: [LUG] Install Screen Res

 

On 23 February 2010 19:52, Terry Hill <telbonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> could you try mint or even mandriva, when i had a similar problem i
>> found it worked ok in mandriva.
>>
>
> Hmm never tried Mandriva, why not, I'll grab the ISO in a min and give
> it a whirl for kicks.
>

Mandriva went in first time, no messing about, detected the nvidia and
the weird monitor and gave me the right refresh rate.

I didn't realise Mandriva was a commercialised in the way it is, fair
enough though.

Only downside is that it detects my usb wifi dongle as a scanner,
which might be a pain as running a cable downstairs will be a
nightmare and I don't fancy the process, I like .deb packages :D - I'm
going to grab debian in a mo and try that as I know how to get wifi
going under ubuntu so I'm hoping it'll be a similar process.

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