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drazaelb

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From: Burlington, ON, Canada

Registered: 2012-06-18

Posts: 6

Yet another Ubuntu convert

Hi all, Jason from Ontario Canada here. Just thought I'd take a second to say hello.

I've been using Ubuntu for many years on a variety of machines. Debian before that, Slackware and even Mandrake before that. My attempted upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 didn't go well at all on my ancient hardware, so I thought I'd shop around and see what other options were out there.

I'm really liking Crunchbang so far, apart from a couple of minor puzzles / issues. Previous versions of Ubuntu worked fine on this computer, so I'm sure it's just a matter of configuration. I'll start some threads in the support forum.

Regarding the hardware, the laptop I'm running on is an HP Pavilion circa 2003. AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU, which is slow but passable for basic work. The biggest problem seems to be the awful ATI Radeon Mobility (IGP 320M) video chipset. Since I can't currently afford to chuck this computer in the lake and buy a new one, I figure I'll try to squeeze as much life out of it as possible.

Thanks for reading, looking forward to beating my machine in to submission!

pidsley

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Registered: 2012-05-23

Posts: 1,349

Re: Yet another Ubuntu convert

Welcome to #!

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VastOne

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Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: Yet another Ubuntu convert

Welcome to CrunchBang and the Community drazaelb!

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wuxmedia

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From: Normal for Normandy

Registered: 2012-03-09

Posts: 867

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Re: Yet another Ubuntu convert

Welcome drazaelb,

i feared the worst for my radeon 9200, live boot and standard  install gave me whoosy windows, tried Smxi out and happy camper, bloody long script. worth going through the readme.

try here

good luck

vicshrike

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Registered: 2009-02-13

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Re: Yet another Ubuntu convert

Welcome to #! drazaelb, hope you will like it here, enjoy!

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ivanovnegro

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 5,271

Re: Yet another Ubuntu convert

Welcome to #!. I hope you will have fun here. But sure you will.

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drazaelb

New Member

From: Burlington, ON, Canada

Registered: 2012-06-18

Posts: 6

Re: Yet another Ubuntu convert

i feared the worst for my radeon 9200, live boot and standard  install gave me whoosy windows, tried Smxi out and happy camper, bloody long script. worth going through the readme.

Thanks for the pointer. Was that to get ATI's fglrx driver installed? I looked in to that many years ago, and my hardware isn't supported by fglrx, so I'm stuck with the open source driver. I think this chipset is so old that ATI has forgotten that it ever existed (even before AMD bought them).

The open source driver works pretty well, as long as I don't expect to actually connect to an external monitor or anything.

fortyseven

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From: Sector 7G

Registered: 2011-12-23

Posts: 494

Re: Yet another Ubuntu convert

Welcome to #!.

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