[geeks] Ubuntu on Intel graphics

[Lionel Peterson]

On Mar 7, 2010, at 9:43 PM, "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> Dell says that you have a GMA950, and there is really no excuse for  
> that to not function correctly.

Agreed.

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> BTW, was that a clean install that didn't work, or was it an  
> upgrade? Have you tried a Fedora Live CD just to see if it is better  
> supported? I'm burning Fedora 12 to try at the moment.

Clean install - the machine takes 4 gig of RAM but has a pokey Celeron  
CPU. I think I can upgrade the CPU to a more reasonable P4 (maybe a D- 
series CPU, like the D805 or D630 for dual core happiness ;^).

I'm not sure if I'll put Linux or Windows on it, depends on if I can  
'up' the CPU or not.

I plan on trying a pre-release of Ubuntu 10.4 to see if the graphics  
works properly in the new release... If I get a chance, I'll try  
Fedora if I get a chance...

Lionel