So Whos The Resident Linux Guru???

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Well own up whos all about bashing their shell?
Ive started using Linux Mint on an old dell and cant get the graphics card to work as im a complete noob in linux.

c'mon boys and gals own up

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[Trig]

Gas was, not been around in a while tho...

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Damn you Triggsy!
I really want to have this old dell running it and running it well. I have taken the ATI 2400HD pci-e card out as I just cant get it to play ball for the time being and running on onboard graphics but cant get any res higher than 1024-768 grrr.
Wheres G1ng3 these days is he not a whiz at this geeky stuff

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[Nellyboy]

Join a linux forum for your chosen distribution and post a message for help. They will help, we all would if we knew how.

[Rasputin]

<a href="http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=91406" target="_blank">http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... t=91406</a>

<a href="http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=49165" target="_blank">http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.ph ... t=49165</a>

Don't know if this helps but worth a try

[Class--]

Join a linux forum for your chosen distribution and post a message for help. They will help, we all would if we knew how.

<a href="http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=91406" target="_blank">http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... t=91406</a>

<a href="http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=49165" target="_blank">http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.ph ... t=49165</a>

Don't know if this helps but worth a try

Hehe thanks guys but Ras did u notice the user that posted the thread in your first link

Last night I was quite happpy I finally got to understand some of my xorg.conf and hacked it so I now have a lovely 1280x960 on this 4:3 screen will maybe try and play with the ati card again now that I understand a few things
Hopefully I will get this running sweet as a nut.
Cheers

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