On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:15:16 -0800, es330td******.com wrote:

> Ubuntu 7.1? Install went smoothly. Wait a second, how come my screen
> choices only go as high as 800x600? XP is running at 1024x768 so I
> *know* the card supports that resolution. I start doing a little
> research and find out that I have the i810 chipset and out of the box
> Linux won't support this.

Absolute bull****.

> Hmm, why not? Windows does. I go find the
> necessary files to add the driver to my OS. I open up nano and
> edit .config files as instructed. No joy. Even after a reboot I
> still can't go higher than 800x600. F*ck it.

You're clearly stupid.

> A couple weeks later read about Fedora 8. I think "Maybe, being more
> polished RH will support the i810." I go through the install. Nope,
> I still can't go higher than 800x600. I open up google and search for
> i810 Fedora and find the name of an RPM I'm supposed to install. I
> get it and open it and it tells me a dependency failed. Ok, I go get
> that rpm and that one tells me a dependency failed. I go get that
> one, and I when I run it it tells me that a dependency failed. I go
> try to find that one (libcrypto.so.7) and it doesn't exist!
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...libcrypto.so.7
> (Okay, I know where to get it but a search engine should be a little
> smarter.)

Or YOU should be a little smarter. I guess you've never heard of a
package manager, eh?

> I've been using Linux since Slackware .99b14

More bull****.

> incompetent, I just wanted to see how ready for prime time various
> distros of Linux are at this point. I realize I may be being a little
> critical but my goal was to see how far I could get before I ran into
> major hurdles. I am sad to say "not very long." "People" expect
> their computers to just work. This clearly doesn't.

You're clueless, and stupid.

> I have yet to go the BSD route on one. We'll see how these go.

LOL. Right. Bye, troll.


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"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".