I am temporarily stepping away from Vista after some lockups that can’t be diagnosed to software or hardware. I downloaded the ubuntu 8.10 CD ISO from the torrent, burned it onto a CD, and rebooted the laptop.
Install took about 15 minutes, after which I was up and running in Ubuntu. Great compatibilty work, congrats to everyone in the community that makes stuff like this happen for people like me.
Once booted into Ubuntu, I thought the screen resolution was a bit off, so I checked, and sure enough, my Latitude E6500 with 15.4 inch 1920×1200 screen was running at 1280×1024. I tried running the screen resolution utility, but to no avail.
I found this post showing how to get it working, and these are the steps that I followed:
- Open a terminal
- Type:
sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk - Once installed, type
sudo envyng -t - Follow the prompts (I installed the recommended nVidia driver)
- Reboot as it recommends
- The laptop now boots at 1920×1200 resoution natively. Beautiful!
Having been a heavy CentOS/RedHat user, I am looking forward to learning the ways of Ubuntu.
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