Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Ubuntu 8.10

I have just upgrade one of my machine to from 8.04 LTS to 8.10 as I heard the new version brings in speed improvement. Although the upgrade went mostly okay, the problem is it broke my display setting. I am using a NVidia graphics card, and it didn't work in the new version.


Surely, if I am determine, I can edit the xorg.conf to get things to work. However, I am disappointed by the lack of graphical configuration tool for xorg. Since I am using a KVM switch, the auto detect function doesn't work. In the past, I can use displayconfig-gtk to force the setting. Unfortunately, Ubuntu decide to phase it out.


If you ask me an area which I really want Ubuntu to be improved upon, this is it, this is the one! A simple, working graphics setting utility similar to those found on a Mac or even on Windows

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