[Yhslug] installing ubuntu on an inspiron B130

[Mackenzie Morgan]

No, the black-window-bug is when you use Beryl and have a lot of windows
open at once, if the memory on the card runs out (if you have like 512mb on
there, you'll never see it), some windows turn black.  It's a known bug with
Nvidia's driver.  The workaround is to set "copy" for Beryl's rendering
path.

On 8/11/07, Karl Pena <karl at tux.org> wrote:
>
> There is a documented ubuntu<-->Nvidia video card "blackout" issue,
> which I have seen in passing but never read. Maybe that is it? I don't
> even know which systems that affects.
>
> What about the screen-resolution limitation:
>   http://www.dansteingart.com/useful-ubuntu-breezy-on-a-dell-b130/
>
> KP
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>
> > Try upgrading to a newer version.  Maybe it's a video card that wasn't
> > supported during the Breezy days and is now.
> >
> > On 8/10/07, Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > hi group,
> > >
> > >      a very nice community member asked me for help installing ubuntu
> on
> > > her
> > > dell inspiron B130 laptop. windows had crashed and she was ready to
> say
> > > goodbye
> > > to it.
> > >
> > >       i happened to have an ubuntu 5.04 disk nearby. the install
> looked
> > > like it
> > > went well, but now she's getting a black screen right after entering
> her
> > > user name.
> > >
> > >        it feels like a hardware problem to me. anyone have any
> experience
> > > with
> > > something similar?
> > >
> > >                 phil
> > >
> > > the fun thing about this is that i'm doing this linux install as part
> of
> > > my
> > > regular work day at the takoma park maryland library.  this is not an
> > > official
> > > library service, but nobody is going to tell me not to do it.  i work
> > > pretty
> > > hard here and my supervisor approves of me serving the community in
> > > whatever
> > > ways i see fit.
> > > --
> > > Phil Shapiro  pshapiro at his.com
> > > http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html
> > > http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com
> > > http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html
> > >
> > > "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates
> > > "Learning happens through gentleness."
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > --
> > Mackenzie Morgan
> > Linux User #432169
> > ACM Member #3445683
> > http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff
> > apt-get moo
> >
>
>


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Mackenzie Morgan
Linux User #432169
ACM Member #3445683
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff
apt-get moo
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