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airurandofrustration.14:23
airurandogot 12.10 up and running from a fresh install.14:23
airurandocould not get £D graphics up and running.14:23
airurando*3D14:24
airurandoborked the system again with my amateur attempts.14:24
airurando12.10 is not for me.14:24
airurandoreinstalling 12.0414:24
airurandoneed to be on the road for 16:00 to meet with a friend before heading into the TOG hosted Release Party / Social Night.14:29
airurandohope the 12.04 reinstall ins done before then.14:29
airurandoevening22:28
zmoylanhi, how went launch party?22:29
airurandoquiet22:29
airurandothe usual suspects22:29
airurandobut TOG had a visitor from California22:29
zmoylancool22:30
zmoylandid you sort your graphics difficulties?22:31
airurandono22:32
airurandoI got 12.10 up and running but with no nifty graphica22:32
zmoylanwhat grapgics chipset is in your system?22:32
zmoylan*graphics22:33
airurandoIn my amateurish attempts to get it sorted I borked 12.10 yet again.22:33
airurandoI've employed the 3 strikes and your out rule22:33
airurandoback to 12.04 for me for the forseeable future.22:33
airurandonot ubuntus fault.  My problem.22:34
zmoylanthe perils of early adoption22:34
airurandoindeed.22:34
airurandoyou need to be an expert which I am not22:34
zmoylanyou shouldn't need to be but graphics chipset designers are notoriouslly secretive.22:35
zmoylanhence the famous linus comment on nvidia that made the news a few months ago.22:36
airurandoaye22:36
zmoylanremember when first trying linux in the days of redhat 5.2 that it took days to get graphics working.  monitors had just being conquered and none had blown up in months :-)22:38
airurandofor me in 1998/1999 redhat 5.2 just worked!  If it hadn't I'd have gotten nowhere (and that is still the case!)22:39
zmoylani was trying it on abandoned hardware.  had a large box of thrown out video cards.  trying them out one by one till i got it working.22:41
zmoylanhad found a full height tower server that someone had bought and then never used.22:43
airurandoit was very much more suck it and see back then.  I was just lucky (had to be really)22:46
zmoylanand now you've been unlucky22:47
zmoylani have a nettop.  barely achieves 1024x768 in windows but 800x600 in linux.  no way to improve it unfortunately22:47
tdr112evening22:54
airurandoso how many more turned up at TOG?22:55
airurandohundreds I bet.22:55
zmoylani think the problem is that oses aren't sexy22:56
zmoylando people camp out for iphones in ireland?22:56
airurandovery good point zmoylan22:56
zmoylanwe don't do that level of fanaticism i think for tech22:57
tdr112airurando: it ended up rob slashbel ebel and I talking about god22:58
airurandoohhh soooo glad I left22:58
zmoylanwhich god and why? :-)22:58
zmoylansorry, quoting long dark teatime of the soul22:59
airurandohehe23:03
airurandonight23:09
zmoylancya23:10

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