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Posted 01/08/2008 15:35:53


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Surely they should make them none case sensitive anyway or at least allow capitalisation. It looks untidy. I don't do untidy.

Can anyone help with the display? Other than that, it is up and running but at the moment as it is at 800 x 600, it is a tiny box in the middle of my 19" screen. Rather annoying.

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Posted 01/08/2008 16:30:35


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Best not to use your own name as a username, better to use random characters.

http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.6.0/UserManual.pdf
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Mitch (01/08/2008)
Surely they should make them none case sensitive anyway or at least allow capitalisation. It looks untidy. I don't do untidy.

The username is just a suggestion, it does allow you to change it

Can anyone help with the display? Other than that, it is up and running but at the moment as it is at 800 x 600, it is a tiny box in the middle of my 19" screen. Rather annoying.


On Virtual box
install the guest additions, that will help.

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Posted 01/08/2008 16:47:20


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I have installed the guest additions and with a bit of manipulation of the xorg.conf file, I have got it to my desired resolution. But how do I improve the graphics to get all the glits and glamour working? I want to see what this would be like if I dual boot. I may give Vista a miss for a bit if I can play around with Linux and get it running as well Vista. By the way, this is coming to you from Ubuntu now! It's great, it's like playing with DOS years ago.

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.1ghz, Asus P5KPL Motherboard, 2 x 2GB DDR2 800mhz G-Skill RAM @ 5 - 5 - 5 - 15, Asus EAH3650 Graphics Card, 250GB SATA2 Hitachi Deskstar, 120GB IDE Maxtor, 36GB SATA WD Raptor, NEC Optiarc 20x DVD-RW, 425w Hiper PSU, Xerox XA7-19i 19” LCD Monitor, Microsoft SideWinder Mouse, 1 x BT HomeHub & 1 x BT HomeHub (Repeater). Vista Home Premium x64.

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HP Compaq - NX6325 Laptop, AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-52 @ 1.6ghz, 2 x 512MB DDR2 667mhz, ATI Radeon Express 1150 Graphics, 15” LCD Screen, XP Pro SP2.

& a Nokia E61 for sofa surfing!
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Posted 01/08/2008 16:50:06


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accidental double post-
Don't think that Vbox will support compiz.

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Posted 01/08/2008 17:21:03


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Also, if somebody would like to give me some advise on installing F@H on Ubuntu, it will help get familiarised and we amy as well get both Vista and Ubuntu chugging through them there proteins!

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& a Nokia E61 for sofa surfing!
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Posted 01/08/2008 18:19:07


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I can't remember how I went about it but it runs on my old computer (kept unattended downstairs). I realise this is not really practical help but it illustrates that the F@H lot documented the linux install really well.

Well, well enough that I can't remember running into problems if you just follow the instructions

P.S. Yes I realise there are three "wells" following each other. Not sure if that's good English but it made me chuckle and repeat out loud in a policeman voice. Thank God I'm going out tonight. I think I'm starting to get a bit crazy stuck home.

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Posted 02/08/2008 02:31:00


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Thanks for your help chaps. Can one of you tell me if I can improve the graphics in Ubuntu? A straight yes or no will do.

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.1ghz, Asus P5KPL Motherboard, 2 x 2GB DDR2 800mhz G-Skill RAM @ 5 - 5 - 5 - 15, Asus EAH3650 Graphics Card, 250GB SATA2 Hitachi Deskstar, 120GB IDE Maxtor, 36GB SATA WD Raptor, NEC Optiarc 20x DVD-RW, 425w Hiper PSU, Xerox XA7-19i 19” LCD Monitor, Microsoft SideWinder Mouse, 1 x BT HomeHub & 1 x BT HomeHub (Repeater). Vista Home Premium x64.

Lappy
HP Compaq - NX6325 Laptop, AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-52 @ 1.6ghz, 2 x 512MB DDR2 667mhz, ATI Radeon Express 1150 Graphics, 15” LCD Screen, XP Pro SP2.

& a Nokia E61 for sofa surfing!
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Posted 02/08/2008 07:41:40


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By graphics do you mean "look and feel" or 3d performance?

Look and feel ccan be tweaked to your hearts content, http://www.gnome-look.org/
3d performance is very limited in Virtualbox because it does not use your real graphics adapter it uses a "virtual" one which does not have good 3d capability.