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Why won't Ubuntu work properly on my Laptop?

zompaq

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Dec 4, 2010
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It's a Dell Inspirion E1705.

There is a huge problem. I cannot see any menus. Just the desktop. I cant even click the mouse and drag a box over the desktop. I think it ssome kind of graphics issue. I cant see the side pannel, or the top pannel. When there are icons on the desktop, I cant see anything.

I can move my mouse to where the side pannel is, but nothing shows up. So I have to guess what is where. This was Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook edition. But I am currently downloading Ubuntu 10.10 Regular edition and am going to use that instead
 

Nothinman

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What kind of video card is in that? And why did you try the Netbook edition first?