Joe Lanman

Only a day after complaining about my ATI card running under Ubuntu, I seem to have a solved a lot of the issues. Slightly embarrassing. To recap – my system is set up like this:

HP 8510p laptop with an ATI HD 2600 mobility card running Ubuntu 8.04 with a 1680×1050 screen, often connected to an external monitor (same resolution).

My ideal setup would be like this:

• ‘Big desktop’ mode when plugged into an external monitor, allowing windows to be dragged between screens.
• When the monitor is unplugged, to continue working on the laptop screen, without restarting Xorg.
• Compiz-fusion providing ‘expose’ functionality amongst other things.
• Generally not having crashes would be nice.

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They do things in Windows there.*

So I’m making a valiant effort to move to Linux, and stay in Linux.  I like how easy it is to install development stuff (servers, compilers, libraries) and I like the ethos of open source software. I installed Ubuntu a few months ago, and again on my new HP laptop. Everything is snappy and responsive, but I have had a few problems…

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