I fought w/ XP for two days (god damn blue screen of death) and decided enough was enough. I switched to Linux but wanted to try the new release of Ubuntu. Dear god, it was so buggy. Getting dual screen (extended mode) to work was like pulling teeth. I gave up after Firefox kept crashing on me.
I found my Fedora 10 DVD and decided to install it. To my surprise, it worked pretty well. For whatever reason Xrandr worked like a charm in Fedora, where in Ubuntu 9 it wouldn't let me extend my second monitor, only clone. However, the only thing that seemed to work in Ubuntu is the ability to control the brightness on my laptop using the Fn-F8 keys but I didn't feel like "hacking" it at the moment. I'm just happy I have a working system.
I seriously hope Fedora 11 brings more goodies.
I found my Fedora 10 DVD and decided to install it. To my surprise, it worked pretty well. For whatever reason Xrandr worked like a charm in Fedora, where in Ubuntu 9 it wouldn't let me extend my second monitor, only clone. However, the only thing that seemed to work in Ubuntu is the ability to control the brightness on my laptop using the Fn-F8 keys but I didn't feel like "hacking" it at the moment. I'm just happy I have a working system.
I seriously hope Fedora 11 brings more goodies.
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