Re: [tlug] bootable CD Japanese distro

["Fergal Daly" <fergal@example.com>]

On 21/12/06, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:56:58PM +0900, Al Hoang wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 06:39:32AM +0000, Fergal Daly wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> >       How about Ubuntu Japanese Edition instead?
> > http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/download
>
> One thing with Ubuntu's latest and greatest--the latest Edgy release
> doesn't support many Matrox cards (and possibly others).

I'm sticking with the 6.10 version unless you know a good reason not to,

F

> It's poor advocacy to say "Watch this," put it in the machine and get
> nothing but a dark screen, and perhaps a message, sync out of range.
>
> It's a known bug, with a fix available, but at present, one would have
> to install with the special install CD or whatever they call it, in text
> mode, then get the package which, so far, I've only see available from a
> link on their bug reports.
>
> Because of this, many Ubuntu based distros will also not work.  It had
> to a do with a bug in the Matrox drivers in X-7.1.something, which has
> since been fixed.   Anything still running X 6.9 will work too.
>
> I think ATI cards were another problem, but I don't really remember, I
> just remember noticing, while looking for solutions to the Matrox
> issues, that there were a few other cards with issues.
>
>
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> Scott Robbins
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